The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Travel and Tourism A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Travel and Tourism "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Travel and Tourism
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Travel and Tourism "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Travel and Tourism
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Travel and Tourism
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Travel and Tourism
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Travel and Tourism He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Travel and Tourism
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Travel and Tourism
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Travel and Tourism
