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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi 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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Travel and Tourism Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Travel and Tourism "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Travel and Tourism "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Travel and Tourism Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Travel and Tourism
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp 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, I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Travel and Tourism I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Travel and Tourism Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Travel and Tourism
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Travel and Tourism Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Travel and Tourism
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Travel and Tourism I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Travel and Tourism
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Travel and Tourism "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Travel and Tourism
