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 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
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-- Woody Allen ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Travel and Tourism Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Travel and Tourism
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Travel and Tourism 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 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Travel and Tourism
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Travel and Tourism If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson 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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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be I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Travel and Tourism
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. What's new? Most of my wife. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Travel and Tourism I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Travel and Tourism "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Man and wife make one fool. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Travel and Tourism
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf 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?) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Travel and Tourism
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Travel and Tourism I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Travel and Tourism
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Travel and Tourism My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
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-- Tom Robbins There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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