Quotes, July 2003
01. Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
02. We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
- De La Rochefoucauld
03. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
- Thomas Paine
04. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
05. Where none admire, ‘tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, ‘tis vain to be a belle.
- George Lyttelton
06. Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
07. I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
08. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
09. I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
- Mark Twain
No quotes July 10-17 due to holiday in the Baltics.
18. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
- Oscar Wilde
19. Variato delectat
[Variation is pleasing]
- Euripides
20. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
- Herman Melville
21. A historian is a prophet in reverse.
- Friedrich von Schlegel
22. Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
- Philander Johnson
23. You know, a lot of girls go out with me just to further their careers ... damn
anthropologists.
- Emo Phillips
24. A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
- Edgar Watson Howe
25. A man should know something about his own country, too, before he goes abroad.
- Laurence Sterne
No quotes July 26-31 due to trip around Norway.
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