Saturday, November 30, 2013

Quote of the Day


Pitt the Younger: I intend to put my own brother up as a candidate against you.
Edmund Blackadder: And which Pitt would this be? Pitt the Toddler? Pitt the Embryo? Pitt the glint in the milkman’s eye?
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"

Friday, November 29, 2013

Quote of the Day

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
- Charles Evans Hughes

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Quote of the Day


My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
- Rita Rudner

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Quote of the Day

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
- Philip Massinger

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Quote of the Day

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.
- Isaac Asimov

Monday, November 25, 2013

Quote of the Day

Take the saving lie from the average man and you take his happiness away, too.
- Henrik Ibsen

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Quote of the Day


In those parts of the world where learning and science have prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
- Ethan Allen

Replanning mah trip to the US

Aight... Imma change mah plans for the trip to Houston this December. I was thinking about heading east, then go back to do some stuff north of town - but instead I'll go up north and then do a trip west to my friends in California. Still some points to be decided but that's the gist of it.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Quote of the Day


A man in the house is worth ten in the street.
- Mae West

Friday, November 22, 2013

Quote of the Day


The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Ayn Rand

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Quote of the Day

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
-Alexander Hamilton

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Quote of the Day


A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
- Alfred E. Wiggam

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Quote of the Day

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
- Josiah Charles Stamp

Monday, November 18, 2013

Quote of the Day


Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
- Sigmund Freud

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Quote of the Day


I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Quote of the Day

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
- Jesse Jackson

Friday, November 15, 2013

Quote of the Day

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
- Joseph Joubert

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Quote of the Day


Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
- G. K. Chesterton

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Quote of the Day

I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.
- Charles Schulz

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Quote of the Day


None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Monday, November 11, 2013

Quote of the Day

By the work, one knows the worker.
- Jean de la Fontaine

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Quote of the Day

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
- Thomas Paine

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Quote of the Day

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin

Friday, November 8, 2013

Quote of the Day


The ultimate result of shielding men from the results of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Quote of the Day


Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Quote of the Day


Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Cicero

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Quote of the Day


I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was 'You'll never find anyone like me again!' I'm thinking, 'I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?'
- Larry Miller

Monday, November 4, 2013

Quote of the Day

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
- John Bovee

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Quote of the Day


Last week, some Jehovah's Witnesses came to my door, and I wouldn't let them leave. They snuck away when I went to get more lemonade.
- Homer Simpson

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Quote of the Day


For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Friday, November 1, 2013

Quote of the Day


A friend in power is a friend lost.
- Henry Brooks Adams