Thursday, March 31, 2016

Quote of the Day

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Quote of the Day

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Quote of the Day

Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle

Monday, March 28, 2016

Quote of the Day

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
- Lord Byron

Sunday, March 27, 2016

Quote of the Day

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Quote of the Day

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock

Friday, March 25, 2016

Quote of the Day

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
- Henry Kissinger

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Quote of the Day

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Quote of the Day

Ideas control the world.
- James Garfield

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Quote of the Day

I would rather make my name than inherit it.
- William M. Thackeray

Monday, March 21, 2016

Quote of the Day

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
- Arthur Calwell

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Quote of the Day

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That unalterable rule applies both to God and man.
- Lord Acton

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Quote of the Day

Jazz: Well, that weekend was a mistake!
Ford Fairlane: Hey, look. I’m sorry I made you clean the toilets and the bathtubs, I mean, who did all the work in bed?
- Andrew Dice Clay in "Ford Fairlane"

Friday, March 18, 2016

Quote of the Day

No society has been able to abolish human sadness; no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice-versa.
- Eugene Ionesco

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Quote of the Day

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
- Mark Twain

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Quote of the Day

One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
- Bertrand Russell

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Quote of the Day

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin

Monday, March 14, 2016

Quote of the Day

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Sacha Guitry

Sunday, March 13, 2016

Quote of the Day

How much reverence can you have for a Supreme being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was going through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the ability to control their bowel movements?
- Joseph Heller

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Quote of the Day

Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of men, then I take away reason and accountability.
- Jack Nicholson in "As good as it gets"

Friday, March 11, 2016

Quote of the Day

We should behave to our friends, as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
- Aristotle

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Quote of the Day

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
- Henry Kissinger

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Quote of the Day

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past.
- Robertson Davies

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Quote of the Day

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.
- Lord Kelvin

Monday, March 7, 2016

Quote of the Day

No one can be caught in places he doesn't visit.
- Danish Proverb

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Quote of the Day

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
- Thomas Paine

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Quote of the Day

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan

Friday, March 4, 2016

Quote of the Day

There are two things to aim at in life: First to get what you want and after you have it, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Quote of the Day

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Quote of the Day

Men must be taught as if you taught them not
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
- Alexander Pope

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Quote of the Day

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
- Lyndon B. Johnson