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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Travel and Tourism What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Travel and Tourism
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Travel and Tourism Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
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- H. G. Wells We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Travel and Tourism "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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everythin Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The church is the great lost and found department.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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, "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Travel and Tourism "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Travel and Tourism
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Travel and Tourism Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Travel and Tourism There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "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 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Travel and Tourism
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Travel and Tourism The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
