Contemporary philosophers

This has nothing much to do with travel, but I enjoyed these insights and thought you might too:  

 

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The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.

~ George Roberts

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If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport

~ Jonathan Winters

 

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As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind –
every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

~ John Glenn

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When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we
had the land. They said’ Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

~ Desmond Tutu

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America is the only country where a significant proportion of the
population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

~ David Letterman

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After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.

~ Italian proverb

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Men are like linoleum floors. Lay ’em right and you can walk all over
them for thirty years.

~ Betsy Salkind

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The only reason they say ‘Women and children first’ is to test the
strength of the lifeboats.

~ Jean Kerr

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I’ve been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take
out the garbage.

~ Zsa Zsa Gabor

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You know you’re a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn’t.

~ Jeff Foxworthy

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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.

~ Prince Philip

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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

~ Emo Philips.

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Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.

~ Harrison Ford

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The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree.

~ Spike Milligan

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Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke.

~ Robin Hall

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Kill one man and you’re a murderer, kill a million and you’re a conqueror.

~ Jean Rostand.

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Having more money doesn’t make you happier.
I have 50 million dollars but I’m just as happy as when I had 48 million.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here
for, I have no idea.

~ WH Auden

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If life were fair Elvis would still be alive today and all the
impersonators would be dead.

~ Johnny Carson

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I don’t believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we’re very skeptical.

~ Arthur C Clarke

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Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired
by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.

~ Steve Martin

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Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

~ Jimmy Durante

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America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric.

~ Doug Hamwell

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I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.

~ Robert Benchley

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10 years ago

I strongly suspect, DrF, you found this list googling Arthur C. Clarke.

10 years ago

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.”  

Hans Christian Anderson

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