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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 12:11 PM
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Quotes for Travelers in This Crazy Time

OK, does anyone have any quotes they'd like to share w/their fellow travelers? If so, add them here!<BR>I'll start:<BR>&quot;LIfe is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!&quot; (From the movie, &quot;Auntie Mame&quot<BR>And, &quot;Live...live...live!&quot;<BR><BR>Voila!
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 12:29 PM
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Men think women are compulsively late, and that it has something to do with estrogen; but when women get lost they ask for directions. Men, however have testosterone, are inherently lost, and never ask for directions. No wonder they go with the flow -- its a direction they can understand.
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 12:35 PM
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Good one sojourn . . . and here's two more:<BR><BR>&quot;All people generalize all the time.&quot; <BR>&quot;All women are sex objects and all men are sex fiends.&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:12 PM
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Completely not travel-related, but my favorite Dorothy Parker quote was her reply when asked to use the word &quot;horticulture&quot; in a sentence. Her response: &quot;You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.&quot;<BR><BR>One of many favorite Mark Twain remarks: &quot;The man who doesn't read great books has no advantage over the man who can't.&quot;<BR><BR>Hope everyone has a fine Valentine's Day!
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:13 PM
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&quot;The world is a book and those who do not travel, read only a page.&quot;<BR>~St. Augustine
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:14 PM
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This is great! <BR>Mas...mas...mas!
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:31 PM
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&quot;Darling, what is the difference between a painting done by someone who wants to paint like a child and a child's painting?&quot; -- Jennifer Saunders of ABFAB fame
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:46 PM
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A truth for all mankind !<BR>The world has 3 kinds of people:<BR><BR>Those who MAKE things happen !<BR>Those who WATCH things happen!<BR>Those who say &quot; what in the hell happened&quot;?<BR><BR>True, regardless of the nationality.
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:47 PM
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If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.<BR><BR>Will Kommen<BR>
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:47 PM
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&quot;There are two kinds of people in this world...those who separate people into two kinds and those who don't.&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:50 PM
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&quot;Guests, like fish, begin to smell bad after two days&quot;<BR> -attributed to Ben Franklin<BR><BR>&quot;Being in a leadership position is like flying first class - the food's usually better, seats more comfortable and drinks are free. But everyone arrives at the same place at the same time, and if the plane hits a mountain those sitting up front are the first to go.&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:52 PM
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If when you are a younger man and you are not a liberal, you do not have a heart. If, however when you are an older man and you are not a conservative, you do not have a braon.&quot;<BR><BR>Sir Winston Churchhill
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:53 PM
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ooops,<BR><BR><BR>&quot;brain&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 01:59 PM
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Okay ... had to put up a few more Mark Twain quotes:<BR><BR>&quot;Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.&quot; <BR><BR>&quot;Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.&quot;<BR><BR>&quot;Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 02:21 PM
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My grandmother had so many great quotes, but this one I love the most.....said just after she asked one of her grandchildren to do/get something for her:<BR><BR>&quot;Why have a dog and do the barking yourself?&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 03:21 PM
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My favorite Mark Twain quote:<BR>America has no native criminal class, except Congress.
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 03:33 PM
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No Fear. No Distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter TRULY slide.<BR>~Narrator from the movie Fight Club
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 04:14 PM
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Since we are on a Mark Twain kick:<BR><BR>&quot;The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco&quot;. <BR><BR>Good for travelers to SF to remember.
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 04:18 PM
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Draw in your petticoats, Ladies. We are going through hell&quot;(unknown)<BR><BR>If you don't have anything nice to say come sit by me. (Alice Longworth Roosevelt)<BR><BR>
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 04:32 PM
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my favorite is: The difference between an ordinary life and an extroadinary life, is finding extroadinary things in ordinary life.
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