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Black Country Tourism - Guide to attractions, accommodation and events in Sandwell, Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Travel and Tourism Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Travel and Tourism
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Travel and Tourism I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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 "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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Travel and Tourism Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago 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.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Travel and Tourism
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Travel and Tourism Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Travel and Tourism Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Travel and Tourism
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Travel and Tourism He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Travel and Tourism That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Travel and Tourism
