I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Camping and Caravans "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Camping and Caravans
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Camping and Caravans Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Camping and Caravans
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Camping and Caravans Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Camping and Caravans
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Camping and Caravans May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Camping and Caravans
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Camping and Caravans If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Camping and Caravans
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Camping and Caravans "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Camping and Caravans
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Camping and Caravans Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Camping and Caravans
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Camping and Caravans Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Camping and Caravans
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Camping and Caravans Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "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 Camping and Caravans
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Camping and Caravans I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Camping and Caravans
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Camping and Caravans Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Camping and Caravans
