Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Camps and Camping "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
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-- Herbert Spencer Camps and Camping
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Camps and Camping The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Camps and Camping
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Camps and Camping "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Camps and Camping
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Camps and Camping A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Camps and Camping
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Camps and Camping
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Camps and Camping blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Camps and Camping During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Camps and Camping All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Camps and Camping
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Camps and Camping Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
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-- Thomas Jefferson When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Camps and Camping
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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Camps and Camping "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Camps and Camping
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Camps and Camping For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Camps and Camping
