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In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin 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) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Travel and Tourism I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "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 It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) 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 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Travel and Tourism Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Travel and Tourism Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone Travel and Tourism Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Travel and Tourism Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Travel and Tourism Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Anonymous Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Travel and Tourism Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Anonymous If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Travel and Tourism Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Travel and Tourism Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert 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 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Travel and Tourism "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Travel and Tourism
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