Aug 1, 2010
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready".
Quotes by Paul Theroux
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. Extensive travelling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind".
Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Sunset and evening star, Are one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea".
Quotes by John Taylor
"He that ... Read More
Jul 22, 2010
Quotes by Tennessee Williams
"Time is the longest distance between two places".
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
"And down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet, Crept like a frightened girl".
Quotes by Isaac Watts
"A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away".
Quotes by Sir William Watson
"April, April, Laugh thy girlish laughter, Then, the moment after, Weep ... Read More
Jun 27, 2010
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Golf is a good walk spoiled".
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen".
Quotes by William Temple
"Personally, I have always looked on cricket as organised loafing".
Quotes by Phillip Stubbes
"Football...causeth fighting, brawling,contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and grat effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth".
Quotes by Jock Stein
"We do have the greatest fans in the world, but I've never seen a fan score ... Read More
Jun 20, 2010
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. let us economize it. When in doubt, tell the truth".
Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear".
Quotes by Susan Sontag
"The truth is always discovered by someone else, it loses something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is".
Quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"When truth is discovered by ... Read More
May 8, 2010
Quotes by Herbert George Wells
"I don't 'old with Wealth. What is Wealth? Labour robbed out of the poor".
Quotes by George Washington
"It is not a custom with me to keep money to look at".
Quotes by Artemus Ward
"Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with".
Quotes by Virgil or Vergil
"Auri sacra fames. (Accursed hunger for gold)".
Quotes by Mark Twain
"Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's , I ... Read More
May 1, 2010
Quotes by William Butler
"If Folly link with Elegance, No man knows which is which, said the man in the golden breastplate, Under the old stone cross".
Quotes by Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"The best way to silence any friend of yours whom you know to be a fool is to induce him to hire a hall".
Quotes by John Wilmot
"Here lies our sovereign lord the King, Whose word no man relies on, Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one".
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Mar 8, 2010
Quotes by Edmund Waller
"To man, that was in the evening made, Stars gave the first delight; Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light".
Quotes by Voltaire
"Men argue, nature acts. Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills".
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