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Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Winston Churchill "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Travel and Tourism
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Travel and Tourism Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Travel and Tourism
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Travel and Tourism This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Erich Fromm I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Travel and Tourism
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari 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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Travel and Tourism "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Dawn French Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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-- Katharine Hepburn My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism Here's to you and here's to me,
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But, if that should ever be,
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-- Anonymous The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Travel and Tourism
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Christopher Morley "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism 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." ( Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Travel and Tourism
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Travel and Tourism "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) 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 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
