Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 Travel and Tourism "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism
"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 "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Travel and Tourism "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Travel and Tourism Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Travel and Tourism
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Travel and Tourism blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Travel and Tourism
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Travel and Tourism Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Travel and Tourism
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Travel and Tourism "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Travel and Tourism
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Travel and Tourism
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Travel and Tourism What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Travel and Tourism
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Travel and Tourism CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Travel and Tourism
