Sunday, March 31, 2013

Quote of the Day


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

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

Quote of the Day

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
- Adlai Stevenson

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

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

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

Quote of the Day

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
- H. C. Andersen

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

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Quote of the Day


If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
- Unknown

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

Quote of the Day


Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Unknown

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

Quote of the Day

The most dangerous predator known to man, is woman.
- Cameron Koo

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Quote of the Day


No one worth possessing
Can be quite possessed.
- Sara Teasdale

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

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Quote of the Day

I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
- Joseph Heller

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