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Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland 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
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Travel and Tourism Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Travel and Tourism Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy 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
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "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 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Travel and Tourism She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Travel and Tourism
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Travel and Tourism
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel and Tourism "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Travel and Tourism
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Travel and Tourism We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Travel and Tourism What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
