Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Quote of the Day

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Friday, May 27, 2011

Quote of the Day

Most women are not so young as they are painted.
- Max Beerbohm

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

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Quote of the Day

The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
- 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

Monday, May 23, 2011

Quote of the Day

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Quote of the Day

Marriage is not a word, it is a sentence.
- Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, May 13, 2011

Quote of the Day

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
- Nancy Mitford

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Quote of the Day

For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
- Richard Clopton

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

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

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

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

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Quote of the Day

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Quote of the Day

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
- Toledo Blade

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

Monday, May 2, 2011

Quote of the Day

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.
- Barry Goldwater

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Quote of the Day

Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler