Best Island Wisdom

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If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it means… — Jack Handey
In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty. — Milan Kundera
For which reason the sea in those parts is impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way; and this was… — Critias
We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great.… — Jerry Lawler
The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. — Nellie Bly
But here let me say one thing: From the moment I entered the insane ward on the Island, I made no attempt to keep up… — Nellie Bly
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. — John Cowper Powys
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for… — Diane Johnson
Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. — William Hurrell Mallock
Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power… — Alain Gerbault
When I retire, I don't want to just move to some island somewhere. I want to be the guy who gives it all back. I… — Michael Scott
A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island! — Jim George
Put any two people together and each will seek ways of feeling superior to the other. If a ship went down in the Pacific and… — Michael Foley
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity… — M. L. Stedman
The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows… — M. L. Stedman
The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark… — Laurie Lee
We’re all trying to get to the same island, whether you swim, fly, surf, or skydive in, it doesn’t matter. What matters is when the… — Jerry Seinfeld
Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and… — Martiros Saryan
For me, a desert island is no tragedy, neither is a deserted planet. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name… — Walt Whitman
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. — Ayn Rand
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go… — William S. Burroughs
The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a tropical… — Unknown Author
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the… — Frederic Farrar
The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night. — Dave Ramsey

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