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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Travel and Tourism "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Travel and Tourism
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 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 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Travel and Tourism Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Travel and Tourism
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire 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 "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) "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
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Travel and Tourism
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Travel and Tourism blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Travel and Tourism The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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