Quote of the Day

Iacta alea est
[The dice is thrown]
- Julius Caesar

Quote of the Day

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
- John W. Gardner

Quote of the Day

It is between fifty and sixty years since I read the Apocalypse, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac.
- Thomas Jefferson

Quote of the Day

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Teddy Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
- Edward Young

Quote of the Day

Advertising is of the very essence of democracy. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which manufacturer and which product shall be the leader today, and which shall lead tomorrow.
- Bruce Barton

Quote of the Day

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower

Quote of the Day

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Quote of the Day

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.
- Joseph Addison

Quote of the Day

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN’T SWIM.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Quote of the Day

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote of the Day

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Quote of the Day

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote of the Day

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
- Thomas Jefferson

Quote of the Day

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.
- Harry S. Truman

Quote of the Day

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
***
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll
I am master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William E. Henley, «Invictus»

Quote of the Day

They will come again, the leaf and the flower, to arise
From squalor of rottenness into the old splendour,
And magical scents to a wondering memory bring:
The same glory, to shine upon different eyes.
Earth cares for her own ruins, naught for ours.
Nothing is certain, only the certain spring.
- Laurence Binyon, "The Burning of Leaves"

Quote of the Day

Is it so small a thing
To have enjoyed the sun
To have lived light in the spring
To have loved, to have thought, to have done?
- Matthew Arnold

Quote of the Day

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life!
- Alfred Tennyson, from "Ulysses"

Quote of the Day

Shut me not alive away
From the light of every day
Hang me rather by the neck to die
Against a morning sky.

Oh shut me not behind a prison wall
I have a horror of this sort of place
Where I may sit and count the hours pass
And never see a smiling human face

Here is all straight and narrow as a tomb
Oh shut me not within a little room.
- Stevie Smith, "The Commuted Sentence"

Quote of the Day

A man said to the Universe,
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
- Stephen Crane

Quote of the Day

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
- H. W. Longfellow

Quote of the Day

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

Quote of the Day

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote of the Day

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
- Dolly Parton

Quote of the Day

The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
- Ronald Reagan

Quote of the Day

Veni, vidi, vici
[I came, I saw, I conquered]
- Julius Caesar

Quote of the Day

Take me or leave me - or, as is usually the case, both.
- Dorothy Parker

Quote of the Day

Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Quote of the Day

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson