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"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Travel and Tourism
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Travel and Tourism Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Travel and Tourism
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Travel and Tourism
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Travel and Tourism He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Travel and Tourism Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Travel and Tourism
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Travel and Tourism
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Travel and Tourism
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Travel and Tourism "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Travel and Tourism
