Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
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-- Joan Crawford The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- H. L. Mencken Camps and Camping
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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-- William Congreve Never eat more than you can lift.
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-- Laurence J. Peter Camps and Camping
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Camps and Camping Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
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-- Carl Gustav Jung Camps and Camping "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Phyllis Diller "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Camps and Camping
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
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-- Groucho Marx "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Camps and Camping "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Camps and Camping
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Robert Graves Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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- Robert Orben "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- John Von Neuman Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
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-- Oscar Wilde Camps and Camping The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
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-- Joan Borysenko Camps and Camping
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Camps and Camping The time is always right to do what is right.
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Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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- Henry Kissinger Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Camps and Camping "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Camps and Camping There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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