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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Travel and Tourism
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Travel and Tourism
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Travel and Tourism Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Travel and Tourism
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel and Tourism Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Travel and Tourism
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 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 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Travel and Tourism
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Travel and Tourism Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben 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 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Travel and Tourism Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Travel and Tourism "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Travel and Tourism
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Travel and Tourism A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Travel and Tourism
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Travel and Tourism All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Travel and Tourism
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Travel and Tourism
