Quotations about Camping

I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent.  That’s a bad place for an argument, because then I tried to walk out and slammed the flap.  How are you supposed to express your anger in this situation?  Zipper it up really quick?  ~Mitch Hedberg

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.  ~Jack Handey

It always rains on tents.  Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.  ~Dave Barry

Backpacking:  An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.  ~Author Unknown

How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?  ~Author Unknown

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
~Author : Henry Fielding Famous Quotes

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Inspirational Sayings

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
~Author : E J Phelps Nice Quotes

It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
~Author : Samuel Butler Great Sayings

Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.
~Author : Tor N rretranders M rk Verden English title not known Meaningful Sayings

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
~Author : Gail Godwin Wise Quotes

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
~Author : Francis Bacon Motivational Sayings

Quotes & sayings on knowledge

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
~ by Thomas Henry Huxley

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
~ by Albert Szent-Györgyi, Teaching and Expanding Knowledge, Science, 4 December 1964

Of course there’s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don’t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
~ by Abbott Lawrence Lowell

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
~ by Maurice Maeterlinck

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
~ by Michael Garrett Marino

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
~ by Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
~ by Carl G. Jung

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.
~ by Crates

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
~ by Confucius

Quotations about Hope

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.  ~Emily Dickinson

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.  ~Anne Lamott

The miserable have no other medicine
But only hope.
~William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.  ~Marian Zimmer Bradley

You’ve gotta have hope.  Without hope life is meaningless.  Without hope life is meaning less and less.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Lord save us all from… a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.  ~Mark Twain

Benjamin Disraeli Speech at the House of Commons January 24 1860 Famous Quotes

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
~Author : Benjamin Disraeli Speech at the House of Commons January 24 1860 Famous Quotes

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
~Author : Robert G Ingersoll Inspirational Sayings

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
~Author : Marston Bates Nice Quotes

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose – especially their lives.
~Author : Eugene V Debs Great Sayings

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
~Author : Robert F Kennedy Meaningful Sayings

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
~Author : Saint Augustine Wise Quotes

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
~Author : W Somerset Maugham Motivational Sayings

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
~Author : Edwin Holt Hughes Famous Quotes

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
~Author : Cristion Morgenstern Inspirational Sayings