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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Travel and Tourism The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Travel and Tourism
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Travel and Tourism
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had 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 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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-- Jerry Olson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Travel and Tourism "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Travel and Tourism
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Travel and Tourism The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Travel and Tourism
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Travel and Tourism
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards May you never leave your marriage alive. Travel and Tourism Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Travel and Tourism Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Travel and Tourism Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
