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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Travel and Tourism
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Travel and Tourism Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Travel and Tourism Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Travel and Tourism
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Travel and Tourism Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Travel and Tourism The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Travel and Tourism
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Travel and Tourism
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel and Tourism The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Travel and Tourism In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Travel and Tourism
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Travel and Tourism The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Travel and Tourism
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Travel and Tourism "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Travel and Tourism Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
