"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Travel and Tourism You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
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-- W. Somerset Maugham A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
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-- Charles Brower "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- George Bernard Shaw Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Travel and Tourism
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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-- Shelley Winters Travel and Tourism There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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successfully Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
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-- George bernard Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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- Sir Winston Churchill The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "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 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Travel and Tourism "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
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May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Travel and Tourism I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Travel and Tourism
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Travel and Tourism He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap He who limps is still walking.
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I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Travel and Tourism In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "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) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Travel and Tourism If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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