Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Camps and Camping "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Camps and Camping
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Camps and Camping Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Camps and Camping
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Camps and Camping God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Camps and Camping
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Camps and Camping A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Camps and Camping
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Camps and Camping Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Camps and Camping
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Camps and Camping "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Camps and Camping
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Camps and Camping Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Camps and Camping May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Camps and Camping
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Marriage is a rest period between romances. Camps and Camping 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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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back with ano Camps and Camping
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Camps and Camping Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Camps and Camping
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Camps and Camping Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Camps and Camping
