"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."

Wilder, Thornton on adventure
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"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on adventure
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"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire on adventure
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"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

Shaw, George Bernard on food and eating
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"Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love."

Gibran, Kahlil on futility
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"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Brock, Alice May on food and eating   

"It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears."

Cato The Elder on food and eating   

"Square meals often make round people."

Cossman, E. Joseph on food and eating
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"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."

Schiaparelli, Elsa on food and eating   

"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on peace
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"A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war."

Dyke, Henry Van on peace
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"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain."

Kennedy, John F. on certainty
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The only journey is the one within."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on success
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"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."

Buscaglia, Leo on friends and friendship
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

Bible on friends and friendship
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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

Belloc, Hilaire on friends and friendship
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"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?"

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend."

Augustine, St. on friends and friendship
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"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."

Churchill, Jennie Jerome on friends and friendship
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on friends and friendship   

"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."

Capote, Truman on friends and friendship
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"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."

Buechner, Frederick on life
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."

Boom, Corrie Ten on life
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"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

Darwin, Charles R. on friends and friendship
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on friends and friendship
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"A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends."

Crane, Frank on friends and friendship
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"A friend is someone you can be alone with and have nothing to do and not be able to think of anything to say and be comfortable in the silence."

Condie, Sheryl on friends and friendship
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"A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin."

Proverb, Russian on death
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"If you would know the value of money try to borrow some."

Franklin, Benjamin on borrowing
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"Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?"

Tomlin, Lily on prayer
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"Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back."

Unknown, Source on borrowing   

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat."

Tomlin, Lily on job
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"There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been."

Loos, Anita on appreciation
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