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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 04:48 PM
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&quot;I can handle anything but temptation&quot;<BR><BR>Oscar Wilde
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 04:59 PM
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&quot;Life is too important to be taken seriously.&quot;<BR><BR>(Also Oscar Wilde)<BR><BR>&quot;Happy thoughts, darling.&quot; (Cary Grant)
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 05:07 PM
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Incredible quotes.<BR>You people are great!
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 05:19 PM
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Incredible quotes.<BR>You people are great!
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 05:20 PM
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&quot;Even the little children in Paris speak French.&quot; <BR> <BR>attributed to Mark Twain
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 05:30 PM
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What is the one about the streets in Venice being flooded?
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 05:31 PM
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I hope I can remember this correctly...<BR><BR>Puedo que si o puedo que no, pero lo mas probable es, quien sabe?
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 05:35 PM
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uncle_sam, I believe Wilde said &quot;I can resist everything except temptation.&quot;<BR><BR>My favorite Wilde quote is his description of fox hunting: &quot;The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 05:50 PM
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A really bad meal is still much better than a really bad kiss.
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 06:01 PM
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It's better to be alone than to wish you were.
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 06:09 PM
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I just remembered one from the Q section of the Chi. Trib. The subj. of the article was about winters and what to wear and carry.<BR>It goes something like this, &quot;A used Kleenex is better than none.&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 07:00 PM
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&quot;A ship in port is safe...but that is not what ships are made for.&quot;<BR><BR>-- Anon (I think...)<BR><BR>&quot;Adventure is as needful to the real life of the spirit as food is to the body.&quot;<BR><BR>-- Micheal Drury
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 07:45 PM
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I just remembered one from the Q section of the Chi. Trib. The subj. of the article was about winters and what to wear and carry.<BR>It goes something like this, &quot;A used Kleenex is better than none.&quot;
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Old Feb 14th, 2003 | 08:23 PM
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A couple of my favorites:<BR>&quot;Once you label me, you negate me.&quot;<BR>Kierkegaard<BR><BR>&quot;If you're going through hell, keep going.&quot;<BR>Winston Churchill
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Old Feb 15th, 2003 | 06:03 AM
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Not necessarily travel related but funny.<BR>&quot;If you see a fork in the road, pick it up.&quot; Yogi Berra
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Old Feb 15th, 2003 | 07:14 AM
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&quot;Eat a live toad first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.&quot;<BR><BR>Lewis Carroll (I think)
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Old Feb 15th, 2003 | 07:37 AM
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If you don't know where you want to go, <BR>then any road will do. the white rabbit said to Alice in Wonderland.<BR><BR><BR>Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.-Emo Phillips <BR><BR><BR>If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation - Jean Kerr <BR>
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Old Feb 15th, 2003 | 07:50 AM
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The hottest place in hell is reserved for those when in time of great moral conflict maintain their neutrality. Dante
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Old Feb 15th, 2003 | 08:00 AM
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after having led 14 student tour groups (my students) the following quote has the greatest impact on me----&quot;the difference between a crisis and an adventure is how we react to it&quot;
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Old Feb 15th, 2003 | 08:04 AM
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.<BR>&quot;If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.&quot; --- Virgina Woolfe<BR><BR>&quot;We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.&quot; --- Robert Louis Stevenson<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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