Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Travel and Tourism
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Prince "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Travel and Tourism I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
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- Umberto Eco You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
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- Anais Nin No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Travel and Tourism The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
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- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Travel and Tourism
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Travel and Tourism Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett 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 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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and Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Travel and Tourism Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
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-- Paulo Freire The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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and Travel and Tourism What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "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' Travel and Tourism The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Travel and Tourism
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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) Travel and Tourism If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Travel and Tourism
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Travel and Tourism
