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I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Travel and Tourism Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Travel and Tourism
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Travel and Tourism Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Travel and Tourism
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Travel and Tourism Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Travel and Tourism
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Travel and Tourism Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Travel and Tourism
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Travel and Tourism He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Travel and Tourism
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Travel and Tourism
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time 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 My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Travel and Tourism She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Travel and Tourism
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Travel and Tourism Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Travel and Tourism
