"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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-- Rich Little "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
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-- Anonymous Camps and Camping
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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-- Kin Hubbard "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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-- Victor Hugo "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Camps and Camping
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker Camps and Camping It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Camps and Camping Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Camps and Camping The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Camps and Camping
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Camps and Camping If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Epperson's law:
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Camps and Camping Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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-- Jeff Raskin Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Camps and Camping Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
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I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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 Camps and Camping To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Camps and Camping
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Camps and Camping I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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