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When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Travel and Tourism
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel and Tourism How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Travel and Tourism
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Travel and Tourism "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Travel and Tourism
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Travel and Tourism
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Travel and Tourism
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Travel and Tourism
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Travel and Tourism "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
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 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Travel and Tourism
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Travel and Tourism Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Travel and Tourism
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Travel and Tourism
