Happy Camping Quotes & Sayings

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. — Seneca The Younger

A reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills. — Fernando Pessoa

mead for my men! — Donald Barthelme

Don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution. — B. Traven

The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself — John Barth

Make yourself invisible, or get busy with something. — Robert Walser

The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. — Donald Barthelme

A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance. — Charles Willeford

I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy. — Margaret Morse Nice

most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days. — Jim Dodge

...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all. — Peter Nadas

Try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to grasp and appreciate the high quality of lunacy required for you to have ever thought you were that person. — Padgett Powell

i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit. — Johnny Shaw

People are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word. — Fredric Brown

It's grown people who always believe the worst — Harper Lee

I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of? — Bill Maher

You have every cause for anxiety. we are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society. there are new times just around the corner — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

if you are too unusual, you may turn into a collector's item. — John D. MacDonald

Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie. — Katie Couric

I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery. — B. Traven

It would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations. — B. Traven

we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn. — Peter Nadas

there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences. — C.J. Box

Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible. — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls ... The genius of the irrational ... This is the body's intelligence, not the mind's. Every living cell possess it ... [the] indomitable will to survive. — David Marusek

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. — Mark Leyner

they are mystified by certain instances. — William Carlos Williams

if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them. — Peter Nadas