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When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Travel and Tourism "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Travel and Tourism The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Travel and Tourism Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Travel and Tourism
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Travel and Tourism "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Travel and Tourism
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Travel and Tourism "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Travel and Tourism
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Travel and Tourism There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Travel and Tourism "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Travel and Tourism
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Travel and Tourism Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Travel and Tourism
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tourism
