2008

Jul

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife....”
— douglas adams
Jul 1st
“What is the difference between unethical and ethical...”
— Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 -...
Jul 1st
“The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look...”
— Jim Bishop
Jul 1st
“Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not...”
— howard scott
Jul 1st
“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do...”
— Betrand Russell
Jul 1st
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no...”
— carl jung
Jul 1st
“If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame...”
— Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine,...
Jul 1st

Jun

“My mother loved children — she would have given...”
— Groucho Marx
Jun 28th
“You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased...”
— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu...
Jun 28th
“Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them...”
— Otto von Bizmarck
Jun 28th
“Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000...”
— unknown, Popular Mechanics,...
Jun 28th
“There are several good protections against temptations, but...”
— Mark Twain
Jun 28th
“Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large...”
— Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914),...
Jun 28th
“It is a common delusion that you make things better by...”
— Dame Rose Macaulay
Jun 28th
“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic...”
— G. K. Chesterton
Jun 28th
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and...”
— Sir Francis Bacon
Jun 24th
“Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former...”
— Chilo
Jun 24th
“It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn’t...”
— Randy K. Milholland, Something...
Jun 24th
“He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next...”
— Ian McEwan
Jun 24th
“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart’s...”
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Jun 24th
“I never know how much of what I say is true.”
— Bette Midler
Jun 24th
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising...”
— jack nicklaus
Jun 24th
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it...”
— Oscar Wilde
Jun 24th
“I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t think...”
— Northern Exposure, Northern...
Jun 24th
“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed...”
— Gandhi
Jun 24th
“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Jun 24th
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of...”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jun 24th
“Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not...”
— Paul Eldridge
Jun 20th
“Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the...”
— Anna Quindlen
Jun 20th
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”
— Alfred Hitchcock
Jun 20th
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a...”
— Mark Twain (1835 - 1910),...
Jun 20th
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who...”
— Robert Benchley
Jun 20th
“He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of...”
— Abraham Lincoln
Jun 20th
“Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how...”
— Amy Sedaris
Jun 19th
“There is no trade or employment but the young man following...”
— Walt Whitman
Jun 19th
“We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or...”
— Sir Winston Churchill,(1874 -...
Jun 19th
“If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
— John Atkinson
Jun 19th
“Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what...”
— Noah Porter
Jun 19th
“Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind...”
— Sidney J. Harris
Jun 19th
“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be...”
— Woody Allen
Jun 18th
“There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It...”
— Alfred North Whitehead (1861 -...
Jun 18th
“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds...”
— Cicero
Jun 18th
“A smiling face is half the meal.”
— Latvian Proverb
Jun 18th
“Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled,...”
— Charles Dickens
Jun 17th
“She was conscious that the things she did were the things...”
— Zelda Fitzgerald
Jun 17th
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
— Josh Billings
Jun 17th
“What’s on your mind, if you will allow the...”
— Fred Allen
Jun 17th
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the...”
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Jun 17th
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.”
— Amelia Burr
Jun 17th
“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Jun 17th
“I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and...”
— Chuck Sigars, The World...
Jun 16th
“The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the...”
— Don Marquis
Jun 16th
“Do something. If it doesn’t work, do something else....”
— Jim Hightower, The New York...
Jun 16th
“Live always in the best company when you read.”
— Sydney Smith
Jun 16th
“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to...”
— Margaret Fairless Barber
Jun 16th
“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort...”
— Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865),...
Jun 16th
“Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and...”
— Johnny Carson
Jun 16th
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything...”
— Oscar Wilde
Jun 16th
“Count not him among your friends who will retail your...”
— Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Jun 16th
“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.”
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Jun 16th
“Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they...”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jun 16th
“A strong conviction that something must be done is the...”
— Daniel Webster
Jun 16th
“Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get...”
— Evan Esar
Jun 16th
“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are...”
— Henry George
Jun 16th
“You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get...”
— Charles Austin Beard (1874 -...
Jun 16th
“Complain to one who can help you.”
— Yugoslav Proverb
Jun 16th
“Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as...”
— Dr. Karl Menninger
Jun 16th
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much...”
— Henry David Thoreau
Jun 15th
“I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before...”
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Jun 15th
“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our...”
— Mark Twain
Jun 15th
“Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before...”
— Robert Graves
Jun 15th
“We should every night call ourselves to an account: What...”
— Seneca
Jun 15th
“Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it...”
— Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007),...
Jun 13th
“I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.”
— Gilda Radner
Jun 13th
“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time...”
— Cory Doctorow, Little Brother,...
Jun 13th
“The best way to keep children home is to make the home...”
— Dorothy Parker
Jun 13th
“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”
— Dan Zadra
Jun 13th
“We only know of one duty, and that is to love.”
— Albert Camus
Jun 13th
“So little time and so little to do.”
— Oscar Levant
Jun 13th
“One cannot fix one’s eyes on the commonest natural...”
— Jane Austen
Jun 12th
“Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to...”
— William Wirt
Jun 12th
“Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when...”
— Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant...
Jun 12th
“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas...”
— Emile Chartier
Jun 12th
“The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing...”
— Anna Quindlen
Jun 12th
“There is no such thing as “fun for the whole family.”
— Jerry Seinfeld
Jun 12th
“Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an...”
— Aphra Behn
Jun 12th
“We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space -...”
— Norman Fischer
Jun 12th
“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with...”
— Wernher von Braun
Jun 12th
“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.”
— Alan Dean Foster, “To...
Jun 12th
“Ever heard Victoria’s REAL secret? Too much support...”
— R. Stevens
Jun 12th
“Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and...”
— The Talmud
Jun 12th
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never...”
— Ernest Hemingway
Jun 12th
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to...”
— Horace Walpole
Jun 11th
“Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just...”
— Bill Nye
Jun 11th
“Where any one body of educated men, of whatever...”
— Jane Austen
Jun 11th
“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the...”
— Bette Davis, The Lonely Life
Jun 11th
“A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the...”
— Emily Dickinson
Jun 11th
“There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that...”
— Sir Thomas Browne
Jun 11th
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is...”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
Jun 11th
“I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my...”
— Ayn Rand, Anthem
Jun 11th
“Son, always tell the truth. Then you’ll never have to...”
— Sam Rayburn quoted...
Jun 11th
“My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling...”
— Kevin Smith
Jun 11th
“It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it...”
— Evan Esar
Jun 11th
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you...”
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Jun 11th
“The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art.”
— Ward Jenkins
Jun 11th
“Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
— AJ Liebling
Jun 11th
“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul...”
— George Carlin
Jun 11th
“The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of...”
— Ellen DeGeneres
Jun 10th
“The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and...”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Jun 10th
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we...”
— Blaise Pascal
Jun 10th
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
— Eric Hoffer
Jun 10th
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching...”
— David Letterman
Jun 10th
“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you...”
— Bertrand Russell
Jun 10th
“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Jun 10th
“If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two...”
— Nora Ephron
Jun 10th
“Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are...”
— Cyril Connolly
Jun 10th
“I have lost friends, some by death… others through...”
— Virginia Woolf
Jun 10th
“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be...”
— Walker Percey
Jun 10th
“By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we...”
— Thomas Moore
Jun 10th
“The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter...”
— Art Spander
Jun 10th
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t...”
— Dr. Who
Jun 10th
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle...”
— Helen Keller
Jun 10th
“I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than...”
— Evelyn Rodriguez
Jun 10th
“Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when...”
— Tommy Cooper
Jun 10th
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder,...”
— e e cummings
Jun 9th
“Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better...”
— Spike Milligan
Jun 9th
“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the...”
— George Santayana
Jun 9th
“Regimen is superior to medicine.”
— Voltaire
Jun 9th
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our...”
— John Adams
Jun 9th
“It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow...”
— Robert E. Lee
Jun 9th
“A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business....”
— Northern Exposure
Jun 9th
“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not...”
— Peter McWilliams
Jun 9th
“When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him...”
— Jonathan Swift
Jun 9th
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
— Yoda in The Empire Strikes...
Jun 9th
“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.”
— Henry Kaiser
Jun 9th
“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get...”
— Joseph Conrad
Jun 9th
“About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old...”
— Gloria Pitzer
Jun 9th
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we...”
— Ethel Barrett
Jun 9th
“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
Jun 8th
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is...”