The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Quote of the Day
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life - now that I am old, I know that it is.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Quote of the Day
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.
- Max Beerbohm
- Max Beerbohm
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Quote of the Day
The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
- Max Beerbohm
- Max Beerbohm
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Quote of the Day
It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Henry Ward Beecher
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Quote of the Day
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Henry Ward Beecher
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Quote of the Day
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Henry Ward Beecher
Monday, May 23, 2011
Quote of the Day
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Quote of the Day
A man in love is incomplete until he has married - then he’s finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Friday, May 20, 2011
Quote of the Day
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
- Rita Rudner
- Rita Rudner
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Translation from British English
This is pure effin brill! The British are masters of understatements and subtle irony, and we more literal minded squareheads up north (and down on the continent too) can really use this translation.
Quote of the Day
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
- Cyril Connolly
- Cyril Connolly
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Quote of the Day
Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.
- Joey Adams
- Joey Adams
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Quote of the Day
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- Herbert Spencer
- Herbert Spencer
Monday, May 16, 2011
Quote of the Day
Two fri... ehm, acquaintances of mine got married Sunday in New York, so this week will be devoted to marriage quotes...
Marriage is a wonderful invention. But, then again, so is the bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly
Marriage is a wonderful invention. But, then again, so is the bicycle repair kit.
- Billy Connolly
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Quote of the Day
So many gods, so many creeds
So many paths that wind and wind
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
So many paths that wind and wind
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Quote of the Day
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
- Aneurin Bevan
- Aneurin Bevan
Friday, May 13, 2011
Quote of the Day
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
- Nancy Mitford
- Nancy Mitford
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Quote of the Day
Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.
- William Orville Douglas
- William Orville Douglas
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Quote of the Day
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
Monday, May 9, 2011
Quote of the Day
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one.
- Edmund Burke
- Edmund Burke
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Quote of the Day
I’ll publish, right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
- Lord Byron
- Lord Byron
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Quote of the Day
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
- Edmund Way Teale
- Edmund Way Teale
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Quote of the Day
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Arthur Baldwin
- James Arthur Baldwin
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Quote of the Day
We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
- Scott Adams
- Scott Adams
Monday, May 2, 2011
Quote of the Day
To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
- Barry Goldwater
- Barry Goldwater
Sunday, May 1, 2011
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