You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
- Fred Allen
Monday, December 22, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Daily Quote 355
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
- Thomas Szasz
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Daily Quote 354
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
- Garry Trudeau
- Garry Trudeau
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Daily Quote 353
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Monday, December 15, 2008
Daily Quote 352
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
- John Barrymore
- John Barrymore
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Daily Quote 350
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
- Louis Vermeil
- Louis Vermeil
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Daily Quote 347
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
- Shelley Winters
- Shelley Winters
Friday, December 5, 2008
Daily Quote 346
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson
- Doug Larson
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Daily Quote 345
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
- Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
- Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum
Monday, December 1, 2008
Daily Quote 344
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely
- Robert X. Cringely
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Daily Quote 343
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn
- Ernest Benn
Friday, November 28, 2008
Daily Quote 342
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
- Johnny Carson
- Johnny Carson
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Daily Quote 341
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson
- Lee Simonson
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Daily Quote 340
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies
- Robertson Davies
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Daily Quote 339
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner
- Jane Wagner
Monday, November 24, 2008
Daily Quote 338
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
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Daily Quote 335
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
- Robert Benchley
- Robert Benchley
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Daily Quote 334
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
- Henry Allen
- Henry Allen
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Daily Quote 333
You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg
- Mitch Hedberg
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Daily Quote 332
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas Adams
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Daily Quote 331
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
- Bill Vaughan
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Daily Quote 328
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Daily Quote 326
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Daily Quote 325
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
- Don Delillo
- Don Delillo
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Daily Quote 324
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
- Jean Sibelius
- Jean Sibelius
Friday, October 31, 2008
Daily Quote 323
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
- Henry J. Tillman
- Henry J. Tillman
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Daily Quote 322
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
- Groucho Marx
- Groucho Marx
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Daily Quote 321
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
- Don Marquis
- Don Marquis
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Daily Quote 319
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Ellen DeGeneres
Friday, October 24, 2008
Daily Quote 318
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Randall Jarrell
- Randall Jarrell
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Daily Quote 317
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Daily Quote 315
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh
- Evelyn Waugh
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Daily Quote 314
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Daily Quote 312
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen Goodman
- Ellen Goodman
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Daily Quote 311
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen
- Jane Austen
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Daily Quote 310
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Monday, October 13, 2008
Daily Quote 309
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.
- Evelle J. Younger
- Evelle J. Younger
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Daily Quote 308
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Daily Quote 307
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Friday, October 10, 2008
Daily Quote 306
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson
- Wendell Johnson
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Daily Quote 305
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
- Jackie Mason
- Jackie Mason
Friday, October 3, 2008
Daily Quote 304
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
- Tom Hanks
- Tom Hanks
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Daily Quote 303
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
- Evan Esar
- Evan Esar
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Daily Quote 302
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
- Art Spander
- Art Spander
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Daily Quote 301
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Monday, September 29, 2008
Daily Quote 300
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
- Ernest Haskins
- Ernest Haskins
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Daily Quote 299
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Friday, September 26, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Daily Quote 297
When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
- Rita Rudner
- Rita Rudner
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Daily Quote 296
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Daily Quote 295
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov
- Peter Ustinov
Friday, September 19, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Daily Quote 290
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost
- David Frost
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Daily Quote 289
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Sir Winston Churchill
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Daily Quote 288
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Corenk
- Alan Corenk
Monday, September 8, 2008
Daily Quote 287
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin
- George Carlin
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Daily Quote 286
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
- W. C. Fields
- W. C. Fields
Friday, September 5, 2008
Daily Quote 285
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
- Thomas Szasz
- Thomas Szasz
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Monday, September 1, 2008
Daily Quote 283
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller
- Olin Miller
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Daily Quote 280
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'
- Jay Leno
- Jay Leno
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Daily Quote 279
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Orson Welles
- Orson Welles
Friday, August 22, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Daily Quote 276
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
- Russell Green
- Russell Green
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Daily Quote 275
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett
- Caskie Stinnett
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Daily Quote 272
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Daily Quote 269
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter
- Laurence J. Peter
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Daily Quote 265
My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.
- Jessica Alba
- Jessica Alba
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Daily Quote 263
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
- Evan Esar
- Evan Esar
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Daily Quote 262
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
- Hermann Hesse
- Hermann Hesse
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Daily Quote 261
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
- Robert Orben
- Robert Orben
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Daily Quote 260
The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Vic Gold
- Vic Gold
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Daily Quote 259
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Daily Quote 258
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
- Terry Pratchett
- Terry Pratchett
Friday, July 25, 2008
Daily Quote 257
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- Alice Thomas Ellis
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Daily Quote 256
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
- Katharine Hepburn
- Katharine Hepburn
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Daily Quote 254
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
- William Hazlitt
- William Hazlitt
Friday, July 18, 2008
Daily Quote 253
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana
- George Santayana
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Daily Quote 250
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
- Bill Vaughan
- Bill Vaughan
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Daily Quote 249
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Daily Quote 248
I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Ellen DeGeneres
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Daily Quote 247
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Miguel de Cervantes
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Daily Quote 246
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence J. Peter
- Laurence J. Peter
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Daily Quote 245
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
- Cullen Hightower
- Cullen Hightower
Monday, July 7, 2008
Daily Quote 244
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Rodney Dangerfield
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Daily Quote 243
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Butler
- Nicholas Butler
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Daily Quote 241
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas Adams
Monday, June 30, 2008
Daily Quote 240
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
- Robert W. Sarnoff
- Robert W. Sarnoff
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Daily Quote 238
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
- Gracie Allen
- Gracie Allen
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Daily Quote 237
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
- Emerson Pugh
- Emerson Pugh
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Daily Quote 236
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley
- Aldous Huxley
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Daily Quote 235
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
- Robert Frost
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Daily Quote 233
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery
- Paul Valery
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Daily Quote 232
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
- Dandemis
- Dandemis
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Daily Quote 230
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
- Alice Kahn
- Alice Kahn
Monday, June 16, 2008
Daily Quote 229
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter
- Laurence J. Peter
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Daily Quote 228
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce
- Ambrose Bierce
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Monday, June 9, 2008
Daily Quote 226
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Daily Quote 225
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Alfred A. Knopf
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Daily Quote 224
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
- Cindy Gardner
- Cindy Gardner
Friday, June 6, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Daily Quote 222
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Daily Quote 218
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nikita Khrushchev
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Daily Quote 217
It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.
- Malcolm Forbes
- Malcolm Forbes
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Daily Quote 216
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
- Phyllis Diller
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Daily Quote 215
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
- Andy Rooney
- Andy Rooney
Monday, May 26, 2008
Daily Quote 214
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
- John Barrymore
- John Barrymore
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Daily Quote 213
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer
- Beryl Pfizer
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Daily Quote 212
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- Denis Diderot
- Denis Diderot
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Daily Quote 211
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
- Mickey Friedman
- Mickey Friedman
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
Daily Quote 208
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Friday, May 16, 2008
Daily Quote 207
The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law.
- Alex Levin
- Alex Levin
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Daily Quote 206
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams
- Douglas Adams
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Daily Quote 204
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
- Robert Copeland
- Robert Copeland
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Daily Quote 202
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright
- Steven Wright
Friday, May 9, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Daily Quote 200
There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
- Norman Mailer
- Norman Mailer
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Daily Quote 198
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
- Cathy Ladman
- Cathy Ladman
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Daily Quote 197
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee
- Arnold Toynbee
Monday, April 28, 2008
Daily Quote 196
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
- Albert Guinon
- Albert Guinon
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Daily Quote 195
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Daily Quote 194
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
- Mogens Jallberg
- Mogens Jallberg
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Daily Quote 193
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
- Laurence J. Peter
- Laurence J. Peter
Friday, April 18, 2008
Daily Quote 192
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Dorothy L. Sayers
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Daily Quote 190
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr
- Jean Kerr
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Daily Quote 189
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
- Bill Vaughan
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Daily Quote 188
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie
- James M. Barrie
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Daily Quote 187
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
- Edward Gibbon
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
Daily Quote 184
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
- Dave Barry
- Dave Barry
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Friday, April 4, 2008
Daily Quote 181
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Daily Quote 180
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
- Johann von Neumann
- Johann von Neumann
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Daily Quote 178
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughan
- Bill Vaughan
Monday, March 31, 2008
Daily Quote 177
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- PG Wodehouse
- PG Wodehouse
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Daily Quote 176
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
- Peter McArthur
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Daily Quote 175
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather
- William Feather
Friday, March 28, 2008
Daily Quote 174
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
- Bill Nye
- Bill Nye
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Daily Quote 173
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
- Woody Allen
- Woody Allen
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
Daily Quote 171
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Daily Quote 170
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Daily Quote 168
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
- WC Fields
- WC Fields
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Daily Quote 167
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Daily Quote 166
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Monday, March 17, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Daily Quote 164
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
- Shelley Winters
- Shelley Winters
Friday, March 14, 2008
Daily Quote 163
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Sir Arthur Eddington
- Sir Arthur Eddington
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Daily Quote 162
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
- Peter Ustinov
- Peter Ustinov
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Daily Quote 161
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- CS Lewis
- CS Lewis
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Daily Quote 160
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely
- Robert X. Cringely
Monday, March 10, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Daily Quote 157
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
- Larry Hardiman
- Larry Hardiman
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Daily Quote 155
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers
- Will Rogers
Monday, March 3, 2008
Daily Quote 154
I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
- Mitch Hedberg
- Mitch Hedberg
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Daily Quote 153
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Friday, February 29, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Daily Quote 151
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell
- James Russell Lowell
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Friday, February 22, 2008
Daily Quote 146
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
- Jackie Mason
- Jackie Mason
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Daily Quote 144
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde
- Oscar Wilde
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Daily Quote 143
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
- Al Franken
- Al Franken
Monday, February 18, 2008
Daily Quote 142
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken
- Howard Aiken
Friday, February 15, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Daily Quote 140
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip G. Hamerton
- Philip G. Hamerton
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Daily Quote 139
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Daily Quote 137
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
- H. Rider Haggard
- H. Rider Haggard
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Daily Quote 136
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur C. Clarke
Friday, February 8, 2008
Daily Quote 135
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp
- Quentin Crisp
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Daily Quote 134
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
- Aaron McGruder
- Aaron McGruder
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Daily Quote 133
Dance like it hurts,/ Love like you need money,/ Work when people are watching.
- Scott Adams
- Scott Adams
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Daily Quote 131
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Daily Quote 130
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike
- John Updike
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Daily Quote 129
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
- Samuel McChord Crothers
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Daily Quote 128
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
- Mike Myers
- Mike Myers
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Daily Quote 127
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Monday, January 28, 2008
Daily Quote 125
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Daily Quote 123
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
- Steven Pearl
- Steven Pearl
Friday, January 25, 2008
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Daily Quote 120
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
- Herm Albright
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Daily Quote 119
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Johnson
Monday, January 21, 2008
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Friday, January 18, 2008
Daily Quote 116
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- Dorothy Nevill
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Daily Quote 115
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- Don Herold
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Daily Quote 114
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- Robert Orben
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Daily Quote 113
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- GK Chesterton
- GK Chesterton
Monday, January 14, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Daily Quote 111
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
- Doug Larson
- Doug Larson
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Daily Quote 110
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
- Lillian Hellman
- Lillian Hellman
Friday, January 11, 2008
Daily Quote 109
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
- Carl Sagan
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Monday, January 7, 2008
Daily Quote 106
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Alfred North Whitehead
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Daily Quote 105
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Friday, January 4, 2008
Daily Quote 103
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
- Edward Gibbon
- Edward Gibbon
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Daily Quote 102
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant
- Oscar Levant
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Daily Quote 101
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
- Joe Weinstein
- Joe Weinstein
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Daily Quote 100
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- Cyril Connolly
- Cyril Connolly
Daily Quote 99
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover
- Herbert Hoover
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