

Favorite Quotes, Etc...
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Life is like a Camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don't turn out, Just take another shot
Travel
Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
“Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
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Mark Twain on Travel
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
๐๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ
“๐๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ญ๐บ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ, ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ — ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ — ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ.”
Borrowed from the Quotable file of Captain Chris Mathews:
These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.
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"He had delusions of adequacy.” Walter Kerr
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” - Clarence Darrow
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
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"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas
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"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain
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"He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde
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"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.” -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
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"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response
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"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.” - Stephen Bishop
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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright
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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb
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"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson
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"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.” - Paul Keating
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"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker
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"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain
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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde
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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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"He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx
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The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
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"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln
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"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard
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"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed
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"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon)