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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Travel and Tourism Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Travel and Tourism
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Travel and Tourism "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Travel and Tourism
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Travel and Tourism
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Travel and Tourism All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Travel and Tourism
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Travel and Tourism Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Travel and Tourism It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Travel and Tourism
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Travel and Tourism If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Travel and Tourism
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Travel and Tourism Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Travel and Tourism
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Travel and Tourism
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Travel and Tourism Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
