Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Hostels Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Hostels
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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-- G. K. Chesterton If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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-- Buckminster There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
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-- Chinese Proverb Hostels None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
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-- Herman Melville Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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-- Helen Hayes Hostels A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
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-- Unknown history student Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Arthur Schoperhauer For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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-- George R. Kirkpatrick Hostels
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
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-- Helen Roland Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
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-- Anonymous Hostels "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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-- André Maurois Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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-- Mother Teresa Hostels The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
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I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
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-- Kenny Ausubel Hostels An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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