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Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Travel and Tourism "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Travel and Tourism
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Travel and Tourism
What's new? Most of my wife. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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, Through the Looking Glass) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Travel and Tourism
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Travel and Tourism If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Travel and Tourism Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero 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 that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Travel and Tourism
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Travel and Tourism The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Travel and Tourism
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Travel and Tourism It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Travel and Tourism
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Travel and Tourism
