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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Travel and Tourism Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Travel and Tourism
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Travel and Tourism Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Travel and Tourism
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller 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) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Travel and Tourism May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. 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 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Travel and Tourism
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Travel and Tourism Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Travel and Tourism
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Travel and Tourism Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Travel and Tourism
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Travel and Tourism "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Travel and Tourism Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Travel and Tourism "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) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Travel and Tourism
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Travel and Tourism It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Travel and Tourism Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Travel and Tourism
