Sunday, December 30, 2007

Daily Quote 98

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller

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

Friday, December 28, 2007

Daily Quote 96

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
- Elias Schwartz

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Daily Quote 95

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
- Meredith Willson

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Daily Quote 94

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
- Mike Myers

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Daily Quote 93

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
- 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

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Daily Quote 91

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- 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

Friday, December 21, 2007

Daily Quote 89

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
- Dave Barry

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Daily Quote 88

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Daily Quote 87

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.
- Laurence J. Peter

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Daily Quote 86

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
- 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

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Daily Quote 84

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
- Herb Caen

Daily Quote 83

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
- Noel Coward

Friday, December 14, 2007

Daily Quote 82

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
- Evan Esar

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Daily Quote 81

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.
- Robert Redford

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

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Daily Quote 79

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- 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

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

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

Friday, December 7, 2007

Daily Quote 75

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Seneca

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

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Daily Quote 73

Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
- 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

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

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

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Daily Quote 69

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
- Jim Morrison

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

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

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

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

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

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Daily Quote 63

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Daily Quote 62

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
- 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

Friday, November 23, 2007

Daily Quote 60

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
- William Faulkner

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

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Daily Quote 58

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- 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

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

Monday, November 12, 2007

Daily Quote 55

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
- 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

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Daily Quote 53

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Daily Quote 52

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
- Simon Cameron

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Daily Quote 51

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Daily Quote 50

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain

Monday, November 5, 2007

Daily Quote 49

We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
- Tom Stoppard

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

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

Friday, November 2, 2007

Daily Quote 46

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
- Marston Bates

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Daily Quote 45

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
- Abbie Hoffman

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

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

Monday, October 29, 2007

Daily Quote 42

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Daily Quote 41

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Lebowitz

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Daily Quote 40

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- WS Gilbert

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

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Daily Quote 38

Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- 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

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Daily Quote 36

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis

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

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Daily Quote 34

Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

Monday, October 15, 2007

Daily Quote 29

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote 28

Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Daily Quote 27

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Daily Quote 26

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
- James Thurber

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Daily Quote 25

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- HL Mencken

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Daily Quote 24

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Daily Quote 23

The world is round; it has no point.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff

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

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

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Daily Quote 20

"Everyone want to go to heaven, but no one want to die."

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

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

Monday, October 1, 2007

Daily Quote 18

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
- 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

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

Friday, September 28, 2007

Daily Quote 15

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.
- Willis Player

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

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Daily Quote 13

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes

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

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

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

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

Friday, September 21, 2007

Daily Quote 8

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Daily Quote 7

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
- Fran Lebowitz

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

Monday, September 17, 2007

Daily Quote 5

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
- 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

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

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

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