Jesus' last words
on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly
seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock
Holmes to figure there is something wrong here.
- Donald Morgan
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Quote of the Day
Millions long for
immortality who don't know what to do on a Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Quote of the Day
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and
begin to bend.
- Walter Savage
Landor
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Quote of the Day
Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a
citizen "Hey, you!"
- Wilson Mizner
- Wilson Mizner
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Quote of the Day
In this very real
world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the
energetic displaces the passive.
- William Bernbach
Monday, March 25, 2013
Quote of the Day
An honest
politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Quote of the Day
The wretchedness
of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world,
just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the
people.
- Karl Marx
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Quote of the Day
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure;
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
- Lord Byron
Friday, March 22, 2013
Quote of the Day
Never having been
able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.
- Voltaire
- Voltaire
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Quote of the Day
When all is said
and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections.
So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes
indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in
cold, firm ground in a bog.
- Miles Franklin
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Quote of the Day
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are
injurious to others.
- Thomas Jefferson
Monday, March 18, 2013
Quote of the Day
I have six locks
on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no
matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always
locking three.
- Elayne Boosler
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Quote of the Day
To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine
to the dead.
- Thomas Paine
- Thomas Paine
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Quote of the Day
Blessed are we who
can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
- Unknown
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Quote of the Day
There are 10 types
of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
- Unknown
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Quote of the Day
People always find
it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future.
- Unknown
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Quote of the Day
A liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist, and too rich to be a communist.
- Unknown
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Quote of the Day
Eskimo: "If I
did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
Priest: "No,
not if you did not know."
Eskimo: "Then
why did you tell me?"
- Annie Dillard, "Pilgrim at Tinker
Creek"
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Quote of the Day
The office of
government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work
out happiness for themselves.
- William Ellery Channing
Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Quote of the Day
The most effective
form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.
- Jill Bensley
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Quote of the Day
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears
or wishes rather than with their minds.
- Nancy Astor
Monday, March 4, 2013
Quote of the Day
A popular government without popular information or the means of
acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own
Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Quote of the Day
The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
- Frank Zappa
- Frank Zappa
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Quote of the Day
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour.
- Walter Bagehot
- Walter Bagehot
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