Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "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) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Travel and Tourism I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Travel and Tourism
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Travel and Tourism
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Travel and Tourism blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Travel and Tourism
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Travel and Tourism I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Travel and Tourism
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Travel and Tourism The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Travel and Tourism
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Travel and Tourism
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Travel and Tourism
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Travel and Tourism I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Travel and Tourism
