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With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Travel and Tourism In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Travel and Tourism When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Travel and Tourism
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Travel and Tourism Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Travel and Tourism
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Travel and Tourism "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Travel and Tourism Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Travel and Tourism
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Travel and Tourism Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Travel and Tourism
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Travel and Tourism Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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) Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Travel and Tourism Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Travel and Tourism A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel and Tourism
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Travel and Tourism He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Travel and Tourism
