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- Moses Hadas in a review Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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-- Oscar Wilde A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Travel and Tourism Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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-- Mme de Staël Travel and Tourism
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Never moon a werewolf.
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-- Edgar Allan Poe For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel and Tourism
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Travel and Tourism To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Travel and Tourism
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
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-- W. Somerset Maugham "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Travel and Tourism If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Travel and Tourism
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Travel and Tourism Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Travel and Tourism Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Travel and Tourism
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Travel and Tourism
