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-- Sir Edmund Hillary

Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ''it.''



Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.



Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Love Quotes


It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Love Quotes


It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.