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"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Travel and Tourism Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Travel and Tourism Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Travel and Tourism
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Travel and Tourism
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Travel and Tourism Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Travel and Tourism
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Travel and Tourism "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Travel and Tourism Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel and Tourism
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Travel and Tourism Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Travel and Tourism
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Travel and Tourism "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Travel and Tourism
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Travel and Tourism I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Travel and Tourism
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Travel and Tourism "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Travel and Tourism
