I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Camping and Caravans The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Camping and Caravans
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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Camping and Caravans "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Camping and Caravans
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Camping and Caravans 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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Camping and Caravans
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Camping and Caravans Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Camping and Caravans
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 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Camping and Caravans You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Camping and Caravans
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Camping and Caravans Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Camping and Caravans
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar 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 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Camping and Caravans Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Camping and Caravans
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Camping and Caravans Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Camping and Caravans
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Camping and Caravans In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Camping and Caravans
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Camping and Caravans I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Camping and Caravans
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Camping and Caravans 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 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Camping and Caravans
