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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Travel and Tourism May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Travel and Tourism
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Travel and Tourism The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Travel and Tourism When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Travel and Tourism
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Travel and Tourism
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Travel and Tourism Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Travel and Tourism Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Travel and Tourism Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Travel and Tourism
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Travel and Tourism To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Travel and Tourism
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson 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. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Travel and Tourism The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Travel and Tourism
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Travel and Tourism Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism
