Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Daily Quote 97
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
- John F. Kennedy
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Daily Quote 95
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
- Meredith Willson
- Meredith Willson
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Daily Quote 93
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
- Cullen Hightower
- Cullen Hightower
Monday, December 24, 2007
Daily Quote 92
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber
- James Thurber
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Daily Quote 91
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Daily Quote 90
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
- Paul Harvey
- Paul Harvey
Friday, December 21, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Daily Quote 86
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Monday, December 17, 2007
Daily Quote 85
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
- E. Joseph Cossman
- E. Joseph Cossman
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Daily Quote 80
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
- George Burns
- George Burns
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Daily Quote 79
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- Franklin P. Adams
- Franklin P. Adams
Monday, December 10, 2007
Daily Quote 78
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Benjamin Disraeli
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Daily Quote 77
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
- Elaine Gill
- Elaine Gill
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Daily Quote 76
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
- Bob Edwards
- Bob Edwards
Friday, December 7, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Daily Quote 74
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
- Peter Drucker
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Daily Quote 73
Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
- James Thorpe
- James Thorpe
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Daily Quote 72
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
Monday, December 3, 2007
Daily Quote 71
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
- Matt Frewer
- Matt Frewer
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Daily Quote 70
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
- Tommy Cooper
- Tommy Cooper
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Friday, November 30, 2007
Daily Quote 68
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne
- Michel de Montaigne
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Daily Quote 67
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
- Herman Melville
- Herman Melville
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Daily Quote 66
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
- Jack Benny
- Jack Benny
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Daily Quote 65
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell
- George Orwell
Monday, November 26, 2007
Daily Quote 64
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
- Dave Barry
- Dave Barry
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Daily Quote 63
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Daily Quote 62
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
- Robert Orben
- Robert Orben
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Daily Quote 61
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
Friday, November 23, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Daily Quote 59
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Daily Quote 58
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard
- Elbert Hubbard
Monday, November 19, 2007
Daily Quote 57
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
- William S. Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Daily Quote 56
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
Monday, November 12, 2007
Daily Quote 55
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
- Cullen Hightower
- Cullen Hightower
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Daily Quote 54
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois
- Andre Maurois
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Daily Quote 53
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen
- Woody Allen
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Daily Quote 52
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron
- Simon Cameron
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Daily Quote 50
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
Monday, November 5, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Daily Quote 48
He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- GK Chesterton
- GK Chesterton
Saturday, November 3, 2007
Daily Quote 47
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friday, November 2, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Daily Quote 44
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
- Scott Adams
- Scott Adams
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Daily Quote 43
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
Monday, October 29, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Daily Quote 41
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Lebowitz
- Fran Lebowitz
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Friday, October 26, 2007
Daily Quote 39
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
- Robert Anton Wilson
- Robert Anton Wilson
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Daily Quote 38
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- Albert Camus
- Albert Camus
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Daily Quote 37
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law
- Foster's Law
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Daily Quote 35
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
- Woody Allen
- Woody Allen
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Daily Quote 33
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
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Friday, October 19, 2007
Daily Quote 32
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Daily Quote 31
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
- Gordon R. Dickson
- Gordon R. Dickson
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Daily Quote 30
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco
- Umberto Eco
Monday, October 15, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Daily Quote 27
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Daily Quote 22
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter
- Laurence J. Peter
Friday, October 5, 2007
Daily Quote 21
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower
- Cullen Hightower
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Daily Quote 19
I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
- Groucho Marx
- Groucho Marx
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Daily Quote 19
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
- Henry Allen
- Henry Allen
Monday, October 1, 2007
Daily Quote 18
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
- Arthur Stringer
- Arthur Stringer
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Daily Quote 17
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
- Aaron McGruder
- Aaron McGruder
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Daily Quote 16
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
- Scott Adams
- Scott Adams
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Daily Quote 14
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Daily Quote 12
Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
- Gallagher
- Gallagher
Monday, September 24, 2007
Daily Quote 11
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- PB Medawar
- PB Medawar
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Daily Quote 10
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
- Mickey Rooney
- Mickey Rooney
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Daily Quote 9
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
- John Sladek
- John Sladek
Friday, September 21, 2007
Daily Quote 8
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Daily Quote 6
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow
- Edward R. Murrow
Monday, September 17, 2007
Daily Quote 5
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
- Clare Booth Luce
- Clare Booth Luce
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Daily Quote 4
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer
- Eric Hoffer
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Daily Quote 3
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
- Booth Tarkington
- Booth Tarkington
Friday, September 14, 2007
Daily Quote 2
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
- Jean Giraudoux
- Jean Giraudoux
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Daily Quote 1
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengel
- Casey Stengel
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