If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Camping and Caravans This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
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-- Herbert Hoover Camping and Caravans
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
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-- Albert Einstein "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Camping and Caravans Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
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-- Samuel Johnson It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
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-- Edward H. Land "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Virginia Woolf Camping and Caravans Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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- James Stephens "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Camping and Caravans blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Camping and Caravans
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--Don Galer Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
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-- Paul Dirac Camping and Caravans The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Camping and Caravans
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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-- Philip K. Dick Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Camping and Caravans Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
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de I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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-- Henny Youngman It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Camping and Caravans Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
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