By neccessity, by proclivity, - and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Quote of the Day
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
- Yogi Berra
- Yogi Berra
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Quote of the Day
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
Monday, April 11, 2016
Quote of the Day
Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Franklin P. Jones
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Quote of the Day
God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell. That is not free will. It's akin to a man telling his girlfriend, do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me, I'll track you down and blow your brains out. When a man says this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his imprisonment/execution. When god says the same we call him loving and build churches in his honor.
- W. Easttom
- W. Easttom
Saturday, April 9, 2016
Quote of the Day
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
Friday, April 8, 2016
Quote of the Day
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
- Niels Bohr
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Quote of the Day
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Quote of the Day
When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Monday, April 4, 2016
Quote of the Day
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
- Solomon Short
- Solomon Short
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Quote of the Day
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Friday, April 1, 2016
Quote of the Day
A small town is a place where there’s no place to go where you shouldn’t.
- Burt Bacharach
- Burt Bacharach
Thursday, March 31, 2016
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
- Doris Day
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
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
- 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
- Alfred Hitchcock
Friday, March 25, 2016
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
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
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
- 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"
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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"
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lord Kelvin
Monday, March 7, 2016
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
- 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
- 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
- Logan Pearsall Smith
Thursday, March 3, 2016
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
And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
- Alexander Pope
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Monday, February 29, 2016
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Quote of the Day
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
- Clarence Darrow
Friday, February 26, 2016
Quote of the Day
No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstood others.
- Goethe
- Goethe
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Quote of the Day
As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
- Hughes Mearns
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish, I wish he'd go away.
- Hughes Mearns
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Quote of the Day
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernhard Shaw
- George Bernhard Shaw
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Quote of the Day
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John Lubbock
- John Lubbock
Monday, February 22, 2016
Quote of the Day
The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
- William Orville Douglas
- William Orville Douglas
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Quote of the Day
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Quote of the Day
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened".
- Newt Gingrich
- Newt Gingrich
Friday, February 19, 2016
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Quote of the Day
I’ll never forget what my Uncle Moe said about little girls. He said, «Officer, she said she was 18!»
- Billy Crystal in «Mr. Saturday Night»
- Billy Crystal in «Mr. Saturday Night»
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Quote of the Day
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monday, February 15, 2016
Quote of the Day
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
- Warren G. Bennis
- Warren G. Bennis
Sunday, February 14, 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
- Lord Acton
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Friday, February 12, 2016
Quote of the Day
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
- Walter Bagehot
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Quote of the Day
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
- Winston Churchill
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Quote of the Day
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
- Voltaire
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Monday, February 8, 2016
Quote of the Day
The government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
Sunday, February 7, 2016
Quote of the Day
All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Friday, February 5, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Quote of the Day
Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
- Arnold Bennet
- Arnold Bennet
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Quote of the Day
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Quote of the Day
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
- Alice Walker
- Alice Walker
Monday, February 1, 2016
Quote of the Day
The difference between a politician and a snail is that a snail leaves its slime behind.
- Gerrold’s Pronouncement
- Gerrold’s Pronouncement
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Quote of the Day
The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.
- Treaty with the Algerians under John Adams
- Treaty with the Algerians under John Adams
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Quote of the Day
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Friday, January 29, 2016
Quote of the Day
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How's the President'?
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Quote of the Day
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Quote of the Day
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Monday, January 25, 2016
Quote of the Day
The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Quote of the Day
God must have had a sense of humor. He gave men a brain and a penis, but only enough blood to operate one of them at a time.
- Scott Barker
- Scott Barker
Saturday, January 23, 2016
Quote of the Day
If at first you don't succeed, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no sense in being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
- W. C. Fields
Friday, January 22, 2016
Quote of the Day
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.
- P.J. O’Rourke
- P.J. O’Rourke
Thursday, January 21, 2016
Quote of the Day
If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property, which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- James Fenimore Cooper
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Monday, January 18, 2016
Quote of the Day
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
- Emo Philips
- Emo Philips
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Quote of the Day
Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.
- Robert Heinlein
- Robert Heinlein
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Quote of the Day
My life needs a rewind/erase button.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
Friday, January 15, 2016
Quote of the Day
Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's 'fair share' of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.
- P.J. O'Rourke
- P.J. O'Rourke
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Quote of the Day
Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.
- Walter Bagehot
- Walter Bagehot
Monday, January 11, 2016
Quote of the Day
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
- Edward Morgan Forster
- Edward Morgan Forster
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Quote of the Day
Women are a lot like elephants, very interesting to look at but I wouldn’t like to own one.
- W. C. Fields
- W. C. Fields
Friday, January 8, 2016
Quote of the Day
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Quote of the Day
Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.
- Michel De Montaigne
- Michel De Montaigne
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
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