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Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Travel and Tourism Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Travel and Tourism To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Travel and Tourism A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism
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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Travel and Tourism A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Travel and Tourism
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "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) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Travel and Tourism He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Travel and Tourism
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Travel and Tourism
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Travel and Tourism "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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.
-- Winston Churchill The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Travel and Tourism "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Travel and Tourism
