Work is the curse of the drinking class. <BR><BR>I may be in the gutter but I am looking up at the stars.<BR><BR>These two quotes of Oscar Wilde have sustained me during my 16 trips to the Betty Ford Clinic. <BR><BR>In an above post, EyeSpy attributes a quote to Jennifer Saunders when it was Patsy Stone who stated it. Tsk-Tsk, sweetie darling.

Thanks for the wonderful quotes. <BR>Dutch proverb (sorry for the bad translation): &quot;Dead fish float with the stream, living fish swim against it.&quot;

Life is a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller <BR><BR> Not so travel related but I like them.<BR><BR>Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy. _ Benjamin Franklin<BR><BR>Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. Dave Barry<BR><BR>When I read the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henry Youngman<BR><BR>An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Earnest Hemingway<BR><BR> Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film. Steven Wright

Not mine - just passing on the wisdom<BR><BR>There are 10 types of people in this world... Ones that understand binary and the ones that don't.<BR><BR>Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability<BR><BR>If you're gonna be late, then be late and not just 2 minutes - make it an hour and enjoy your breakfast<BR><BR>Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... Teach a man to fish and he will sit in boat drinking beer. You decide<BR><BR>It is ALWAYS a bad idea to ask a large man how much his mother charge?<BR><BR>You don't have to be mad to work here, in fact we ask you to complete a medical questionnaire to ensure that you are not.<BR><BR>If you treat the people around you with love and respect, they will never guess that you're trying to get them sacked<BR>

One more: here in the Netherlands, when someone has a perfect life, we say that &quot;he is living like God in France&quot;.

&quot;When the ship runs out of ocean<BR>and the vessel runs aground<BR>Land's where we know the boat is found.<BR>Now there's nothing unexpected<BR>About the water giving out<BR>&quot;Land's&quot; not a word we have to shout<BR>But there's something beside the shoreline<BR>Moving across the beachhead<BR>Coming up from the shipwreck<BR>Making as if to say:<BR><BR>Women &amp; men<BR>Bringing with them messages of love<BR>and everywhere they go love will grow<BR>When you see the faces of the women<BR>and the men, you two will know<BR><BR>Women &amp; men have crossed the ocean<BR>They now begin to pour<BR>out from the boat and up the shore<BR>Two by two they enter the jungle<BR>and soon they number more<BR>Three by three as well as four by four<BR>soon the stream of people gets wider<BR>then it becomes a river<BR>river becomes an ocean<BR>carrying ships that bear<BR>Women &amp; Men&quot;<BR>by They Might Be Giants (yup, the SAME BAND who sings the theme song to Malcolm in the Middle)<BR>&quot;Women &amp; Men&quot; from the album Flood (c. 1990)<BR><BR>See, now there's a little bit of travel and geography all in one song, which fits the parameters of this thread. : )

Beatchick,<BR><BR>Another comes to mind from TMBG, for those on that cruise and in credit to those in the transportation industry. And just because it's goofy. -<BR><BR>There's a picture opposite me<BR>of my primitive ancestry<BR>which stood on rocky shores<BR>and kept the beaches shipwreck free.<BR>Though I respect that a lot<BR>I'd be fired if that were my job<BR>after killing Jason off <BR>and countless screaming Argonauts<BR><BR>

The absence of fear being unknown to him, he was unable to detect it's presence. John Knowles &quot; A Seperate Peace&quot;

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got.<BR><BR>Anybody know who said it?

My favorite quote:<BR><BR>Success<BR>To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to succeed.<BR>Ralph Waldo Emerson.<BR>

&quot;Time Wounds All Heels&quot;.

And one more:<BR><BR>&quot;Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.&quot;<BR><BR>Albert Einstein<BR>

I like the poem &quot;The Lake Isle of Innisfree&quot; by William Butler Yeats.<BR>I will arise and go now<BR>And go to Innisfree.<BR>And a small cabin build there<BR>Of clay and wattles made.<BR>Nine bean rows will I have there,<BR>A hive for the honeybee<BR>And live alone in the bee-loud glade.<BR><BR> The poet is buried at Drumcliffe near this little island on Lough Gill in County Sligo in the north-west of Ireland.<BR>Also buried in area is the author of this piece,Oliver St John Gogarty, whose epithaph this is:<BR><BR>Our friends go with us as we go<BR>Down the long path where beauty wends.<BR>Where all we love foregather so<BR>Why should we fear to join our friends.<BR><BR>Many mention quotes from Wilde.I was in Dublin looking at Oscar Wilde`s statue once and a man stopped to look.I told him Wilde had lived in the house across the street.He asked me did he still live there.Oscar Wilde lived from 1854 to 1900.

&quot;There are two things in this world that I cannot handle....People who are intolerant of other's cultures....and the Dutch.&quot; -Michael Caine in Austin Powers, Goldmember<BR><BR>I have to apologize for the source of this quote, but it just makes me laugh.

As kids my brothers and I would play this silly game about our town as it was so small. Here goes, See that town we're coming too? then my other brother would say, you mean the one we're in? then I would say, no the one we just went through. These post are a good cheer up! Thank you. Alice

A couple of my favorites:<BR><BR>Natures first green is gold<BR>Her Hardest hue to hold<BR>Her early leafs a flower<BR>But only so an hour<BR>The leaf subsides to leaf<BR>So Eden sank to grief<BR>So dawn goes down today<BR>Nothing gold can stay<BR><BR>Robert Frost<BR><BR>and...<BR><BR>&quot;I would never want any woman who would have me for a boyfriend.&quot;<BR><BR>Woody Allen

&quot;it's good to be a pessimist: every time you're either proven right or pleasantly surprised&quot;

&quot;too bad all these people who know how to run a country are too busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair&quot;

&quot;a positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort&quot;

Kavey, thank you for posting this link in another thread!

Dr Rumack:
&quot;The life of everyone on board depends on one thing: Finding someone on board who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner.&quot;

The church is near, but the roads are icey. The tavern is far, but I'll walk carefully.

There are two kinds of people: the 'givers' and the 'takers'. The 'takers' may eat better but the 'givers' sleep better.
Danny Thomas