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Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Travel and Tourism
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Travel and Tourism
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Travel and Tourism "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Travel and Tourism
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Travel and Tourism Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel and Tourism
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Travel and Tourism
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Travel and Tourism
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Travel and Tourism
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Travel and Tourism
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
