Quotes of the Day

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common -Nazlitt, William
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common -Nazlitt, William
2010-02-09 16:00:03

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. -Proverb, Chinese
A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. -Proverb, Chinese
2010-02-09 12:00:02

Everything done in the world is done by hope. -Luther, Martin
Everything done in the world is done by hope. -Luther, Martin
2010-02-09 10:00:02

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."
Marianne Moore quotes
Marianne Moore
2010-02-09 10:00:01

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. -Disraeli, Benjamin
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. -Disraeli, Benjamin
2010-02-09 06:00:03

Violence is my last option.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. -Eckhart, Meister
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. -Eckhart, Meister
2010-02-09 04:00:03

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -Shaw, George Bernard
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. -Shaw, George Bernard
2010-02-09 02:00:03

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -Ruth, Babe
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. -Ruth, Babe
2010-02-08 16:00:02

"Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up."

There is no sin except stupidity. -Wilde, Oscar
There is no sin except stupidity. -Wilde, Oscar
2010-02-08 12:00:05

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
Benjamin Franklin quotes
Benjamin Franklin
2010-02-08 10:00:09

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."
David Herbert Lawrence quotes
David Herbert Lawrence
2010-02-08 10:00:07

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? -Anthony, Dr. Robert
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? -Anthony, Dr. Robert
2010-02-08 10:00:03

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
Benajamin Mays quotes
Benajamin Mays
2010-02-08 10:00:02

"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."
John Martin Fischer quotes
John Martin Fischer
2010-02-08 08:00:10

How come fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing? -Ziggy
How come fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing? -Ziggy
2010-02-08 06:00:02

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. -Beecher, Henry Ward
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. -Beecher, Henry Ward
2010-02-08 02:00:04

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. -Haydon, Benjamin
When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for. -Haydon, Benjamin
2010-02-07 16:00:03

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. -George, David Lloyd
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps. -George, David Lloyd
2010-02-07 12:00:02

"All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work."
Steve Martin quotes
Steve Martin
2010-02-07 12:00:01

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. -Khan, Pir Vilayat
A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. -Khan, Pir Vilayat
2010-02-07 10:00:03

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. -Proverb, Indian
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. -Proverb, Indian
2010-02-07 06:00:03

To live is not breathing it is action.

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Let us choose to believe something good can happen. -Kohe, J. Martin
Let us choose to believe something good can happen. -Kohe, J. Martin
2010-02-07 04:00:02

There is a war against the individual. -Dye, James
There is a war against the individual. -Dye, James
2010-02-07 02:00:05

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. -Collier, Jeremy
True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. -Collier, Jeremy
2010-02-06 16:00:02

"Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts."

the kindest human of them all is GOD and the most powerful of them all -BPBEE
the kindest human of them all is GOD and the most powerful of them all -BPBEE
2010-02-06 12:00:03

"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
Russell Lynes quotes
Russell Lynes
2010-02-06 12:00:02

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. -Eliot, T. S.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. -Eliot, T. S.
2010-02-06 10:00:02

"We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it."
Donald Curtis quotes
Donald Curtis
2010-02-06 08:00:12

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side. -La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side. -La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
2010-02-06 06:00:05

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

Let them hate, so long as they fear.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. -Renard, Jules
Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred. -Renard, Jules
2010-02-06 04:00:03

Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor. -Luther, Martin
Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor. -Luther, Martin
2010-02-06 02:00:03

The innocent is the person who explains nothing. -Camus, Albert
The innocent is the person who explains nothing. -Camus, Albert
2010-02-05 12:00:02

"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin."
Jay Leno quotes
Jay Leno
2010-02-05 12:00:02

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. -Johnson, Samuel
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle. -Johnson, Samuel
2010-02-05 10:00:02

"I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12."
David Bowie quotes
David Bowie
2010-02-05 08:00:10

Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. -Spencer, Herbert
Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. -Spencer, Herbert
2010-02-05 06:00:02

God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

History is but a confused heap of facts.

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. -Christie, Agatha
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. -Christie, Agatha
2010-02-05 04:00:01

As you have sown so shall you reap. -Cicero, Marcus T.
As you have sown so shall you reap. -Cicero, Marcus T.
2010-02-05 02:00:03

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -Digest, Readers
A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -Digest, Readers
2010-02-04 16:00:02

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

"The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Gandhi, Mahatma
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Gandhi, Mahatma
2010-02-04 12:00:01

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. -Guthrie, Janet
Racing is a matter of spirit not strength. -Guthrie, Janet
2010-02-04 10:00:04

"Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it."
Henny Youngman quotes
Henny Youngman
2010-02-04 08:00:12

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. -Renard, Jules
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. -Renard, Jules
2010-02-04 06:00:03

No one ever went broke by saying no too often.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Time is the devourer of all things.

Curses are like chickens, they always come home.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Socialism can only arrive by bicycle.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. -Bierce, Ambrose
Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. -Bierce, Ambrose
2010-02-04 04:00:05

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. -Aristotle
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. -Aristotle
2010-02-04 02:00:02

O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. -Whitman, Walt
O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. -Whitman, Walt
2010-02-03 16:00:02

She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. -Wilde, Oscar
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. -Wilde, Oscar
2010-02-03 12:00:03

"Every woman knows all about everything."
Rudyard Kipling quotes
Rudyard Kipling
2010-02-03 12:00:02