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