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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Travel and Tourism "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Travel and Tourism
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Travel and Tourism
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Travel and Tourism Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Travel and Tourism
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Travel and Tourism
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "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) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Travel and Tourism
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Travel and Tourism 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 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Travel and Tourism In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Travel and Tourism
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Travel and Tourism An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone 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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Travel and Tourism "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Travel and Tourism
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Travel and Tourism People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Travel and Tourism
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Travel and Tourism
