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Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Travel and Tourism
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Travel and Tourism
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Travel and Tourism You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Travel and Tourism And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Travel and Tourism
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Travel and Tourism
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Travel and Tourism In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Travel and Tourism
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' 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 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Travel and Tourism
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Travel and Tourism "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Travel and Tourism I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Travel and Tourism
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
