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-- Oscar Wilde I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
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-- Tom Stoppard Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Travel and Tourism
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Travel and Tourism Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West We must become the change we want to see.
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All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Travel and Tourism Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
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little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Travel and Tourism
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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- Will Rogers We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
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-- Will Rogers "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Andy Warhol Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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-- Phillip Brooks Travel and Tourism "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Travel and Tourism
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Travel and Tourism Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Al Capone My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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convi Travel and Tourism Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Travel and Tourism
