Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Quote of the Day

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: To be himself.
- Henrik Ibsen

Monday, February 27, 2017

Quote of the Day

"Here's looking at you, kid"
- Humphrey Bogart, "Casablanca"

Sunday, February 26, 2017

Quote of the Day

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colors. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn’t crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers are corpse fingers.
- D. H. Lawrence

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Quote of the Day

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.
- Shakespeare

Friday, February 24, 2017

Quote of the Day

In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Walt Whitman

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Quote of the Day

Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regard everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
- Robert Anton Wilson

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Quote of the Day

Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Quote of the Day

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.
- Johnny Carson

Monday, February 20, 2017

Quote of the Day

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
- Woody Allen

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Quote of the Day

All across the nation, such a strange vibration,
people in motion,
there’s a whole generation, with a new explanation,
people in motion, people in motion.
- Scott MacKenzie, from "San Francisco"

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Quote of the Day

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
- Barry Goldwater

Friday, February 17, 2017

Quote of the Day

"Hey! Asshole! This is the ultimate fuck you. I just poked your wife."
-Richard Dreyfuss in "Tin Men"

Thursday, February 16, 2017

Quote of the Day

The man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world.
- Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Quote of the Day

People build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in.
- Ronald Reagan

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Quote of the Day

H. L. Mencken’s Law:
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
- H.L. Mencken

Monday, February 13, 2017

Quote of the Day

No matter how many times I visit this great city I'm always struck by the same thing: a yellow taxi cab.
- Scott Adams

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Quote of the Day

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Huxley

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Quote of the Day

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
- Queen Victoria

Friday, February 10, 2017

Quote of the Day

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
- Ronald Reagan

Thursday, February 9, 2017

Quote of the Day

Jugend ist Trunkenheit ohne Wein
[Youth is drunkenness without wine]
- Goethe

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Quote of the Day

"I'm a great believer in doin' nothing."
- Kevin Kline in "Silverado"

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Quote of the Day

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
- Richard M. Nixon

Monday, February 6, 2017

Quote of the Day

"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Quote of the Day

The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Quote of the Day

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats

Friday, February 3, 2017

Quote of the Day

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing.
- Harry S. Truman

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Quote of the Day

C’est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur
[It gives double pleasure to deceive the deceiver]
- Jean de la Fontaine

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Quote of the Day

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
- John F. Kennedy