A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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-- Howard Aiken Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Travel and Tourism "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
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-- Caroline Rhea Travel and Tourism
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
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-- William Jennings Bryant "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Travel and Tourism The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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-- Johnny Carson Travel and Tourism
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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-- Abraham Lincoln A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' In the blithe days of honeymoon,
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And cross like other wives.
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comple "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Travel and Tourism
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Travel and Tourism
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "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) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
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-- Orison Swett Marden Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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-- Oscar Wilde "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Travel and Tourism The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Travel and Tourism
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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-- Mae West "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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Travel and Tourism One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
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