"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 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 have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Woody Allen If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Travel and Tourism Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
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-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Travel and Tourism "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Travel and Tourism
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel and Tourism
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
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-- Mark Twain "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Travel and Tourism Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Travel and Tourism
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Travel and Tourism
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Travel and Tourism
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Travel and Tourism What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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