Buda's Words Of The Wise

[Buda]

This is my wisdom post, it where i enlighten you with quotes from people that are (usualy) smarter than i am. ill try to update this daliy but, i may not be able to with my schedule. and you probably notice after a while that i quote Mark Twain and Albert Enstien(two of the greatest human beings ever to have lived, in my opinion) alot. Some of the quotes will be funny and some will be seirious, but all have a little bit of wisdom in them. If you would like to submit quotes to my ever growing pool of them just PM me with the quote and name of the person.


Buda's Words Of The Wise



Today's Words
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
-John Ruskin


Past words
Saturday, July 28th, 2007
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
-Albert Schweitzer

Friday, July 27th, 2007
"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper."
-Barry Neil Kaufman

Thursday, July 26th 2007
"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
-Mark Twain

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
"[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered."
-Al Capp

Friday, July 20th, 2007
"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."
-Solomon Short

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."
-Alan Alda

Friday, July 13th, 2007
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
-Irish Proverb

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
-Oscar Wilde

Monday, July 9th, 2007
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."
-Samuel Goldwyn

Sunday July 8th, 2007
"Hell is full of musical amateurs."
-George Bernard Shaw

Saturday July 7th, 2007
"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

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
"If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you’re better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don’t feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation."
-Hugh Macleod

Monday, July 2nd, 2007
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' "
-Isaac Asimov

Saturday, June 31st, 2007
"The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change."
-Seth MacFarlane

Friday, June 29th, 2007
"I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself."
-Ruben Studdard

Thursday, June 28th, 2007
"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
-W. H. Auden

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."
-George Carlin

Monday, June 25th, 2007
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
-Jean Kerr

Sunday, June 24th, 2007
"There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses.
If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric,
and if you're a little to late, you're a failure,
but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius.
So I have never worried much about eccentricity."
-Tom Watson Jr.

Friday, June 22nd, 2007
"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
-Henry Miller

Thursday, June 21st, 2007
"Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man."
-Francis Cardinal Spellman

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
-Gore Vidal

Monday, June 18th, 2007
"Engineering is the art of doing for $1.00 what any bungler can do for
$2.00."
-A railroad engineer

Saturday, June 16th, 2007
"It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing."
-Scott Westerfeld

Thursday, June 14th, 2007
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
-Diana Spencer

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
-Laurence J. Peter

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
-Robert Fritz

Monday, June 11th, 2007
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
-Woodrow Wilson

Sunday, June 10th, 2007
"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science."
-Henri Poincare

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
-Noel Coward

Thursday, May 31st, 2007
"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
-Rudyard Kipling

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
-Mark Twain

Monday, May 28th, 2007
"I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."
-Ernest Hemingway

Sunday, May 26th, 2007
"Reality continues to ruin my life."
-Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

Friday, May 25th, 2007
"California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange."
-Fred Allen

Thursday, May 24th, 2007
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
"An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it."
-Jef Mallett, Frazz

Monday, May 21st, 2007
"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
-Fred Allen

Thursday, May, 17th, 2007
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
-Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
"I am not young enough to know everything."
-Oscar Wilde

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-Thomas A. Edison

Monday, May 14th, 2007
"Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy."
-Henry Kissinger

Sunday, May 13th, 2007
"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Friday, May 11th, 2007
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
"There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
-Bertrand Russel

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
"Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new."
-Og Mandino

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."
-Raymond Lindquist

Friday, April 27th, 2007
"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."
-Bertrand Russell

Thursday, April 26th, 2007
"I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
-Virginia Woolf

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy."
-Woody Allen

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
-Hunter S. Thompson

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough"
-Mario Andretti

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
"It's racist if you're white. Only minorities can be proud of what they are. White people be ashamed."
-Joseph Filip

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."
-Bertrand Russell

Monday, April 16th, 2007
"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
-George Steiner

Sunday, April 15th, 2007
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
-Elizabeth Taylor

Saturday, April 14th 2007
"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

Friday, April 13th, 2007
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, April 12th, 2007
"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."
-Robert Anton Wilson

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
"I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
-Fritz Perls

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor

Monday, April 9th, 2007
"It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us."
-Real Live Preacher, real live preacher weblog

Sunday, April 8th, 2007
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss

Friday, April 6th, 2007
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Thursday, April 5th, 2007
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
-Will Rogers

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
-Isaac Asimov

Sunday, April 1st, 2007
"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
-Mark Twain

Saturday, March 31st, 2007
"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."
-Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives"

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men."
-Kin Hubbard

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Monday, March 26th, 2007
"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves."
-Robert Anton Wilson

Sunday, March 25th, 2007
"Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts."
-Mary O'Hara

Friday, March 23rd, 2007
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-Robert Graves

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
-Doug Larson

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
"I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap."
-Bob Hope

Monday, March 19th, 2007
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
-Peter Drucker

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-Bertrand Russell

Friday, March 16th, 2007
"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."
-Stephen Vizinczey

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
-Jeff Foxworthy

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
"This is bad."
-Leonardo DiCaprio as the you-know-what hits the you-know-what in Titanic (1997)

Sunday, March 11th, 2007
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
-Laurence J. Peter

Saturday, March 10th, 2007
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
-Thomas Carlyle

Friday, March 9th, 2007
"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
-Voltaire

Thursday, March 8th, 2007
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
-Umberto Eco

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them."
-Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
-Rita Rudner

Monday, March 5th, 2007
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
-Woody Allen

Friday, March 2nd, 2007
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
-C. P. Snow

Thursday, March 1st, 2007
"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."
-George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
"If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door."
-Paul Beatty

Monday, February 26th, 2007
"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."
-Bertrand Russell

Sunday, February 25th, 2007
"What luck for rulers that men do not think."
-Adolf Hitler

Saturday, February 24th, 2007
"You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

Friday, February 23rd, 2007
"Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal."
-Marya Mannes

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
-William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
"Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
-Paul Dirac

Monday, February 19th, 2007
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
-Erica Jong

Sunday, February 18th, 2007
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Oscar Wilde

Satyrday, February 17th, 2007
"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."
-H. L. Mencken

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
"The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better."
-Randy K. Milholland

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Monday, February 12th, 2007
"He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."
-Aeschylus

Sunday, February 11th, 2007
"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."
-Tom Lehrer

Saturday, February 10th, 2007
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."
-Ann Landers

Thursday, February 8th, 2007
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
-Robert Frost

Wednesday, Feruary 7th, 2007
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth."
-Charles A. Dana

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
-H. L. Mencken

Monday, February 5th, 2007
"The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools."
-Doug Larson

Sunday, February 4th, 2007
"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish."
-Virgil Thomson

Thursday, January 25th, 2007
"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

Wednesday, January 20th, 2007
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Tuesday, January 19th, 2007
"Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!"
-Og Mandino

Monday, January 18th, 2007
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
-Fred Allen

Sunday, January 17th, 2007
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
-Og Mandino

Thursday, January 16th, 2007
"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
-Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

Wednesday, January 15th, 2007
"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand."
-Sir Edward Appleton

Tuesday, January 14th, 2007
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
-Arthur C. Clarke

Monday, January 14th, 2007
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter."
-Beverly Sills

Saturday, January 13th, 2007
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, january 10th, 2007
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
-Albert Guinon

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."
-Theophrastus

Saturday, January 3rd, 2007
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
-Richard Bach

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right."
-Kurt Herbert Alder

Thursday, December 28th, 2006
"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country[USA], we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men."
-Russell P. Askue

Monday, December 25th, 2006
"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Sunday, December 24th, 2006
"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."
-Pat Paulsen

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
"Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to."
-H. Mumford Jones

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
"Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sunday, December 10th, 2006
"Nihilism is best done by professionals."
-Iggy Pop

Friday, December 8th, 2006
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
-Theodore Roosevelt

Thursday, December 7th, 2006
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
-Nikola Tesla

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
-Fred Allen

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
-Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Friday, December 1st, 2006
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
-Rick Cook

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
-Steve Jobs

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."
-Shimon Peres

Monday, November 27th, 2006
"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad."
-Norm Papernick

Friday, November 24th, 2006
"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
-Will Rogers

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
"On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime."
-Unknown

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Robert Louis Stevenson

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever."
-Anonymous

Monday, November 20th, 2006
"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer."
-Evelle J. Younger

Sunday, November 19th, 2006
"No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."
W. H. Auden

Saturday, November 18th, 2006
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-Scott Adams

Friday, November 17th, 2006
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
-Ambrose Bierce

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
-Pancho Villa, last words

Friday, March 10th, 2006
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
-Kahlil Gibran

Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
-Mark Twain

Monday, March 6th, 2006
"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem."
-Malcolm Forbes

Sunday, March 4th, 2006
"Rejoice not at thine enemy's fall - but don't rush to pick him up either."
-Jewish Proverb

Friday, March 3rd, 2006
"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."
-Aldous Huxley

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
-W. H. Auden

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."
-Stephen Vincent Benet Litany for Dictatorships

See this post for quotes earlier than Februart 28th, 2006.

[Therin]

Quote me! I'm smarter than you are!

[Reverend]

*Thwacks Therin

Keep this for his words of the day moron

[Shandriz]

Do you take suggestions? . I'm rather partial to the "If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father..." quote.

[Buda]

Yeah, i take suggesions, and like for people to make intelligent coments about the quote *ahem**looks at Therin*

email or pm me the entire quote, and atribute it to someone and ill put it in my pool.


**edit for more archive space**
Monday, February 27th, 2006
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."
-Hasidic Saying

Thursday, February 23rd
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
-Yogi Berra

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Saturday, February 18th, 2006
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
-Aldous Huxley

Thursday, February 16th, 2006
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
-Jean Kerr

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Monday, February 13th, 2006
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
-Douglas Adams

Sunday, February 12th, 2006
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood."
-Logan Pearsall Smith

Friday, February 10th, 2006
"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."
-Bertrand Russell

Thursday, February 9th, 2006
"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together."
-Bette Davis

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
-Marilyn Monroe

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
-C. P. Snow

Monday, February 6th, 2006
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire."
-Arab Proverb

Sunday, February 5th, 2006
"It's like Skittles exploded in my eyeballs!"
-Doot

Friday, February 3rd, 2006
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
-B. F. Skinner

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison

Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

Monday, January 30th, 2006
"A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't."
-Unknown

Saturday, January 28th, 2006
"Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
-Aldous Huxley

Friday, January 27th, 2006
"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there."
-David Zucker

Thursday, January 26th, 2006
"Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for."
-Earl Warren

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006
"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
-Norman Douglas

Monday, January 23rd, 2006
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
-George Santayana

Saturday, January 21st, 2005
"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
-Jack Benny

Thursday, January 19th, 2006
"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks."
-Totie Fields

Wednesday January 18th, 2006
"It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature."
-Steven Wright

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'"
-Earl Warren

Sunday, January 15th, 2005
"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon."
-David Assael

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
"If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time."
-Nadine Stair

Monday, January 9th, 2006
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
-Nikita Khrushchev

Thursday, January 5th, 2006
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."
-Bob Hope

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
-Oscar Wilde

Monday, January 2nd, 2006
"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything."
-Bill Lyon

Saturday, December 31st, 2005
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease."
-George Dennison Prentice

Friday December 30th, 2005
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
-Richard M. Nixon

Thursday, December 29th, 2005
"Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too."
-Lichty and Wagner

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, December 19th, 2005
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thursday, December 15th, 2005
"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye."
-General Douglas MacArthur


Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
"If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men."
-Russell P. Askue

Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger."
-Franklin P. Jones

Monday, December 12th, 2005
"After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed."
-De La Lastra's Law

Sunday, December 11th, 2005
"I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'"
-Oscar Levant

Saturday, December 10th, 2005
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

Friday, December 9th, 2005
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
-Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, December 8th, 2005
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
-Benjamin Disraeli

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
-Harry S Truman

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
-The Dalai Lama

Monday, December 5th, 2005
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
-Frank Herbert

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005
"When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things."
-Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
-Aristotle

Thursday, November 24th, 2005
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
-Dr. Robert Schuller

Saturday, November 19th, 2005
"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thursday, November 17th, 2005
"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."
-R. Buckminster Fuller

Sunday, November 13th, 2005
"...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you."
-Woodrow Wilson

Monday, November 7th, 2005
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in."
-Katherine Mansfield

Saturday, November 5th, 2005
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."
-Rita Rudner

Friday, November 4th, 2005
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
-Ambrose Bierce

Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
-Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics."
-Fletcher Knebel

Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
-Johann von Neumann

Monday, October 31st, 2005
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
-Chinese Proverb

Sunday, October 30th,
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-Mark Twain

Friday, October 28th, 2005
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."
-Elbert Hubbard

Thursday, October 27th, 2005
"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves."
-Gene Fowler

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
"The palest ink is better than the best memory."
-Chinese Proverb

Friday, October 21st, 2005
"If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes."
-Robert Redford

Thursday, October 20th, 2005
"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
-Ciceros

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
"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

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
"You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her."
-Real Live Preacher

Monday, October 17th, 2005
"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day."
-Sharon Gold

Saturday, Ocotber 15th, 2005
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
-Anonymous

Friday, October 14th, 2005
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."
-Gordon R. Dickson

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Unknown, Brigader Lethbridge-Stewart in "Dr. Who"

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
"I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family."
-Trey Parker and Matt Stone Northern exposure

Monday, October 10th, 2005
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Saturday, October 7th, 2005
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
-Mark Twain

Friday, October 6th, 2005
"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."
-Gloria Pitzer

Thursday, October 5th, 2005
"Assumptions are the termites of relationships."
-Henry Winkler

Wednesday, October 4th, 2005
"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
-John J. Plomp

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
"A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else."
-Cardinal de Retz

Monday, October 3rd, 3005
"If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time."
-Shimon Peres

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Saturday, October 1st, 2005
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better."
-Anonymous

Friday, September 30th, 2005
"Worries go down better with soup than without."
-Jewish Proverb

Thursday, September 29th, 2005
"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
-Mark Twain

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
"The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven."
-Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are."
-Malcolm Forbes

Monday, September 26th, 2005
"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."
-Hector Berlioz

Friday, September 23rd, 2005
"When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
-Edgar Watson Howe

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005
"In a mad world only the mad are sane."
-Akira Kurosawa

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
"We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves."
-Norman Fischer

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
-Dan Zadra

Monday, September 19th, 2005
"There are too many people, and too few human beings."
-Robert Zend

Friday, September 16th, 2005
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
-James Bryant Conant

Thursday, September 15th, 2005
"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
-Abraham Lincoln

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
"Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public."
-Robert Morley

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
"Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
-Dr. David M. Burns

Monday, September 12th, 2005
"A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."
-Joey Adams

Sunday, September 11th, 2005
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Friday, September 9th, 2005
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
-Arnold Toynbee

Thursday, September 8th, 2005
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
-Noel Coward

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."
-Albert Guinon

Monday, September 5th, 2005
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
-Albert Einstein

Sunday, September 4th, 2005
"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."
-Bradley's Bromide

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005
"A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind."
-Leon Tec

Friday, September 2st, 2005
"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

Thursday, September 1st, 2005
"Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life."
-Diane Wakoski

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
-Clarence Darrow

Monday, August 29th, 2005
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
-Robert Benchley

Sunday, August 28th, 2005
"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
-Mark Twain

Friday, August 26th, 2005
"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare

Thursday, August 25th, 2005
"I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high."
Wilbur Wright declining to make a speech in 1908

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give."
-P. D. James

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
-Elbert Hubbard

Monday, August 22nd, 2005
"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Sunday, August 21st, 2005
"Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool."
-Bellamy Brooks

Saturday, August 20th, 2005
"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
-Confucius

Friday, August 19th, 2005
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
-George Bernard Shaw

Thursday, August 18th, 2005
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
-Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
"Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?"
-Thomas a Kempis

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
-Edward Abbey

Monday, August 15th, 2005
"Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation."
-William Arthur Wood

Sunday, August 14th, 2005
"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."
-William Arthur Ward

Friday, August 12th, 2005
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, August 11th, 2005
"The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation."
-William Hutton

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
-Eddie Rickenbacker

Sunday, August 7th, 2005
"All problems begin with girls and end in alchohol."
-Devin Joubran

Saturday, August 6th, 2005
"I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another."
-Ellen Goodman
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?"
-George Price

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
-Confucius

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
-Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Monday, August 1st, 2005
"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, July 30th, 2005
"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed."
-Sydney Smith

Friday, July 29th, 2005
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
-Oscar Wilde

Thursday, July 28th, 2005
"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations."
-Jean Paul Richter

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."
-Herman Melville

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
"I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her."
-Rodney Dangerfield

Monday, July 25th, 2005
"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move."
-David Letterman

Sunday, July 24rd, 2005
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
-John Cage

Saturday, July 23nd, 2005
"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."
Robert Frost

Friday, July 22nd, 2005
"The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer."
-Victor Borge

Thursday, July 21st, 2005
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
-Henry Ward Beecher

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, July 15th, 2005
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thursday, July 14th, 2005
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
-John Keats

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
-Confucius

Saturday, July 9th, 2005
"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
-Peter McWilliams

Friday, July 8th, 2005
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""
-Charles M. Schulz

Thursday, July 7th, 2005
"Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy."
-Spike Milligan

Monday, July 4th
"Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so."
-Mark Twain

Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it."
Robert Heinlein

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
-Fran Lebowitz

Friday, July 1st, 2005
"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, June 30th, 2005
"I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."
-Victor Hugo

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."
-Marquis de Vauvenargues

Tuesday, June 28th, 2005
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-Robert Graves

Monday, June 27th, 2005
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
-Douglas Adams

Sunday, June 26th, 2005
"A friend is one before whom I may think aloud."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, June 25th, 2005
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Friday, June 24th, 2005
"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."
-Clifton Fadiman

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
"He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it."
Pierre Charron

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
-Albert Einstein

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth.""
-Quincy Jones

Saturday, June 18th, 2005
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
-Douglas Adams

Friday, June 17th, 2005
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
-John Adams

Thursday, June 16th, 2005
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
-Will Cuppy

Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."
-Jules Renard

Monday, June 13th, 2005
"It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sunday, June 12th, 2005
"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
-Mark Twain

Friday, June 10th, 2005
"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, June 9th, 2005
"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."
-Dorothy Sarnoff

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
-Beverly Sills

Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
"Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not."
-Elie Wiesel

Monday, June 6th, 2005
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
-Robin Williams

Sunday, June 5th, 2005
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."
-Barry Switzer

Saturday, June 4th, 2005
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
-Douglas Adams

Friday, June 3rd, 2005
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
-Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, May 29th, 2005
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
-Mother Teresa

Thursday, May 25th, 2005
"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."
-Mignon McLaughlin

Wednesday, May 24th, 2005
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
-Douglas Adams

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2005
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything."
-Blaise Pascal

Monday, May 22nd, 2005
"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."
-Unknown

Sunday, May 21st, 2005
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
-Eugene McCarthy

Saturday, May 21st, 2005
"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse."
-Chilo

Friday, May 20th, 2005
"It is easier to stay out than get out."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, May 19th, 2005
"Humans are the only animal that gains pleasure by amassing useless knowledge."
-Isaac Asimov (submitted by Shinigami Banchou)

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
"The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it."
-Laurence J. Peter

Monday, May 16th, 2005
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
-Henry David Thoreau

Sunday, May 15th, 2005
"The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving."
-Russell Green

Saturday, May 14th, 2005
"Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him."
-Cicero

Friday, May 13th, 2005
"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."
-William Shakespeare

Thursday, May 12th, 2005
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
-Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
-Friedrich Nietzsche


Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."
-Charles M. Schulz

Monday, May 9th, 2005
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."
-Gail Godwin

Sunday, May 8th, 2005
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
-Henry David Thoreau

Saturday, May 7th, 2005
"I cannot write to verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures, I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But, I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician."
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 21 to his father

Friday, May 6th, 2005
"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
-Dick Clark

Thursday, May 5th, 2005
"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."
-John Erskine

Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche


Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
"Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in."
-Evan Davis

Monday, May 2nd, 2005
"Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse."
-Unknown

Saturday, April 30th, 2005
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Friday, April 29th, 2005
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."
-Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Thursday, April 27th, 2005
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
-Mark Twain
Wednesday, April 26th, 2005
"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
-Dan Rather

Tuesday April 26th, 2005
"Do or do not. There is no try."
-Yoda The Empire Strikes Back

Monday April 25th, 2005
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
-Nick Diamos

Sunday April 24th, 2005
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-John Stuart Mill

Saturday, April 23rd, 2005
"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."
-Aldous Huxley

Friday, April 22nd, 2005
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, April 21st, 2005
"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
-Jerome K. Jerome

Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
"If there’s one thing I know it’s God does love a good joke."
-Hugh Elliott

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, April 18th, 2005
"The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place."
-Havelock Ellis

Sunday, April 17th, 2005
"Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy."
-Groucho Marx

Saturday, April 16th, 2005
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
-George Bernard Shaw

Friday, April 15th, 2005
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
-Douglas Adams

Thursday, April 14th,2005
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
-Gerry Spence

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon."
-David Assael

Monday, April 11th, 2005
"When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure."
-Aaron McGruder

Sunday, April 10th, 2005
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
-George Eliot

Friday, April 8th, 2005
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
-Ronald Reagan

Thursday, April 7th, 2005
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
-Burnadette Devlin

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Monday, April 4th, 2005
"An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh."
-Will Rogers

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
-Franklin P. Jones

Saturday, April 2nd, 2005
"I cannot live without books."
-Thomas Jefferson

Friday, April 1st, 2005
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
-Herm Albright

Thursday, March 31st, 2005
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
-Woody Allen

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
-Ernest Hemingway

Monday, March 28th, 2005
"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
-Albert Einstein

Sunday, March 27th, 2005
"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
-Michael Pritchard

Saturday, March 26th, 2005
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
-Chester Bowles

Friday, March 25th, 2005
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly insane every night of our lives."
-The Mahareeshi

Thursday, March 24th, 2005
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
-Carl Jung

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
"When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?'"
-Quentin Crisp

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
"The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish."
-Virgil Thompson

Monday, March 21st, 2005
"There are worse things than death, there are teeth."
-Steven King The Stand

Sunday, March 20th, 2005
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see."
-Henry David Thoreau

Friday, March 18th, 2005
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."
-Peter De Vries

Thursday, March 17th, 2005
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
-Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
"Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives."
-Maurice Chevalier

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
-A. Whitney Brown

Monday, March 14th, 2005
"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

Sunday, March 13th, 2005
"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent."
-Epictetus

Friday, March 12th, 2005
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, March 11th, 2005
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
-George Orwell Animal Farm

Wednesday, March 10th, 2005
"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch."
-Michael Friedman

Tuesday, March 9th, 2005
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
-Mark Twain

Monday, March 8th, 2005
"My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life."
-Miles Davis

Sunday, March 7th, 2005
"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege."
-Unknown

Saturday, March 6th, 2005
"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything."
-Johann K. Lavater


Friday, March 5th, 2005
"There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators."
-Will Rogers

Thursday, March 4th, 2005
"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."
-Jewish Proverb

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2005
"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Monday, February 28th, 2005
"What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
-Patrick Henry

Sunday, February 27th, 2005
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
-Mark Twain

Friday, February 25th, 2005
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
-Thomas Carlyle

Thursday, February 24th, 2005
"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them."
-Henry James

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest."
-J. G. Holland

Monday, February 21st, 2005
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
-Oscar Wilde

Sunday, February 20th, 2005
"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
-Unknown

Friday, February 18th, 2005
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
-David Lloyd George

Thursday, February 17th, 2005
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
-Alfred Adler

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
-Farmers' Almanac

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
"All power corrupts, but we need the electricity."
-Unknown

Monday, February 14th, 2005
"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."
-Tom Lehrer

Sunday, February 13th, 2005
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
-P.J. O'Rourke

Saturday, February 12th, 2005
"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
-Groucho Marx

Friday, February 11th, 2005
"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

Thursday, February 10th, 2005
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."
-H. L. Mencken

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
-Mark Twain

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
-Will Rogers

Monday, February 7th, 2005
"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."
-Bernard Avishai

Sunday, February 6th, 2005
"I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'"
-Unknown

Saturday, February 5th, 2005
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
-Bertrand Russell

Friday, February 4th, 2005
"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."
-William Lloyd Garrison

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
"When you go into court, you're putting your fate in the hands of 12 people not smart enough to get out of jury duty."
-Norm Crosby

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
"On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws."
-Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
-Plato

Monday, January 31th, 2005
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-Mark Twain

Sunday, January 30th, 2005
"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces."
-Maureen Murphy

Saturday, January 29th, 2005
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
-Redd Foxx

Friday, January 28th, 2005
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, January 27th, 2005
"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
-Bertrand Russell

Monday, January 24th, 2005
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
-Mark Twain

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire."
-Arab Proverb

Friday, January 21st, 2005
"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."
-Andre Malraux

Thursday, January 20th, 2005
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
-Thomas H. Huxley

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
-Calvin Trillin

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."
-Demosthenes

Monday, January 17th, 2005
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
-Oscar Wilde

Sunday, January 16th, 2005
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Saturday, January 15th, 2005
"All would live long, but none would be old."
-Benjamin Franklin

Friday, January 14th, 2005
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, January 13th, 2005
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it."
-Mark Twain

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."
-Groucho Marx

Monday, January 10th, 2005
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
-John F. Kennedy

Sunday, January 9th, 2005
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Saturday, January 8th, 2005
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau

Friday, January 7th, 2005
"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
-Kurt Vonnegut

Thursday, January 6th, 2005
"There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker."
-Charles M. Schulz

Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
-Thomas A. Edison

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn."
-Henry David Thoreau

Monday, January 3rd, 2005
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
-Bill Cosby

Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
-Henny Youngman

Saturday, January 1st, 2005
"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
-Mark Twain

Friday, December 31st, 2004
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
-Burt Bacharach

Thursday, December 30th, 2004
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
-Charles M. Schulz

Wednsday, December 29th, 2004
"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."
-Sir William Drummond

Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."
-Albert Einstein

Monday, December 27th, 2004
"A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."
-Patricia Neal

Saturday, December 25th, 2004
"Its better to light a candle, then to curse the darkness."
-Chinese Proverb(submitted by Shinigami Banchou)

Friday, December 24th, 2004
"Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family..."
-Berke Breathed

Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
-Fred Allen

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot."
-Clarence Thomas

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet."
-William Gibson

Monday, December 20th, 2004
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
-Mark Twain

Sunday, December 19th, 2004
"Duct tape is like the Force; it has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
-Unknown

Thursday, December 16th, 2004
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
-William Ellery Channing

Wednsday, December 15th, 2004
"Be Good and you will be Lonesome"
-Mark Twain(submitted by Shinigami Banchou)

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."
-John F. Kennedy

Monday, December 13th, 2004
"Everone can see the picture once you have connected the dots."
-Buda

Sunday, December 12th, 2004
''The key is in time but time isn't the key.''
Tenshiai

Saturday, December 11th, 2004
"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed."
-Don Wood

Friday, December 10th, 2004
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle."
-Phillips Brooks

Thursday, December 9th, 2004
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednsday, December 8th, 2004
"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
Thomas Szasz

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
Kristian Wilson

Monday, December 6th, 2004
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
-Laurens Van der Post

Sunday, December 5th, 2004
"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
-Confucius

Thursday, December 2nd, 2004
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."
-P. J. O'Rourke

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."
-Leo J. Burke

Monday, November 29th, 2004
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
-Phyllis Diller

Sunday, November 28th, 2004
"There are no secrets to success. It is a result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure."
-Colin Powell

Saturday, November 27th, 2004
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."
-Socrates

Friday, November 26th, 2004
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-Mark Twain

Thursday, November 25th, 2004
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
-Aristotle

Tuesday November 23rd, 2004
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi

Monday November 22st, 2004
"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."
-Robert F. Kennedy

Sunday November 21st, 2004
"Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers."
-Voltaire

Staturday November 20th, 2004
"The finest Mentats have a healthy respect for the error factor in their computations."
-Jessica Atreides, Dune

Friday November 19th, 2004
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
-Lao-tzu

Thursday November 18th, 2004
"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children."
-King Edward VIII

Wednsday November 17th, 2004
"When life gives you a lemon, throw it back as hard as you can in the general direction from where it came."
-Unknown

Tuesday November 16th, 2004
"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
Leonardo da Vinci

Monday November 15th, 2004
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
-Abraham Maslow

Sunday November 14th, 2004
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
-Albert Einstein(upon hearing of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima)

Saturday November 13th, 2004
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
Aristotle

Friday November 12th, 2004
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
-Gore Vidal

Thursday November 11th, 2004
"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
-Albert Einstein

Wednsday November 10th, 2004
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."
-Mother Teresa

Tuesday November 9th, 2004
"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
-Henry Van Dyke

Monday November 8th, 2004
"Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
-Plato

Sunday November 7th, 2004
"If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?"
-Lois McMaster Bujold

Saturday November 6th, 2004
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
-Indian Proverb

Friday November 5th, 2004
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
-Irv Kupcinet

Thursday November 4th, 2004
"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."
-Laurence J. Peter

Wednsday November 3rd, 2004
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children."
-Jimmy Carter

Tuesday November 2nd, 2004
"Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life."
-Robert Byrne

Monday November 1st, 2004
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers

Sunday October 31st, 2004
"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."
-Douglas Adams

Saturday October 30th, 2004
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-Mahatma Gandhi

Friday October 29th, 2004
"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofab**** die for his."
-George S. Patton, (attributed)

Thursday October 28th, 2004
"Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?"
-Will Rogers

Wednsday October 27th, 2004
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein

Tuesday October 26th, 2004
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain

Monday October 25th, 2004
"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy."
-Sam Levenson

Sunday October 24th, 2004
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them."
-Lily Tomlin

Saturday October 23rd, 2004
"Don't let a suitcase filled with cheese be your big fork and spoon."
-Marie Barone (from Everybody Loves Raymond)

Friday October 22nd, 2004
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
-G. H. Lewes

Thursday October 21st, 2004
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi (Submitted by UltraWolf)

Wednesday October 20th, 2004
"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness."
-John Ruskin

Tuesday October 19th, 2004
"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so."
Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)

Monday October 18th, 2004
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
-A. Whitney Brown

Sunday October 17th, 2004
"If Guns kill people, then I can blame misspelled words on my pencil."
-Larry the Cable Guy

Saturday October 16th, 2004
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln

Friday October 15th, 2004
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
-Bertrand Russell

Thursday October 14th, 2004
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
-Douglas Adams

Wednsday October 13th, 2004
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Tuesday October 12th, 2004
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-Albert Einstein

Monday October 11th, 2004
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
-Mark Twain

Sunday October 10th, 2004
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
-Douglas Adams

Saturday October 9th, 2004
"A man's fate is a man's fate, but life is an illusion."
-Japanese saying

Friday October 8th, 2004
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
-Andy Rooney

Thursday October 7th, 2004
"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
-Socrates

Wednesday October 6th, 2004
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein (Submitted by Akanari)

Tuesday October 5th, 2004
"Politicians should always have a rope around their necks. It keeps them upright."
-Mark Twain

Monday October 4rd, 2004
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."
-Albert Einstein

Sunday October 3rd, 2004
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
-Mark Twain

Saturday October 2nd, 2004
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-Douglas Adams

Friday October 1st, 2004
"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will only be stilled by no hatred, this is the law eternal."
- The Buddha

[Buda]

I had to update allitle early, cuz i may not be able to get on tommorow.

[Sperrit]

I approve of this topic! Words of wisdom are little appreciated in this day and age and I am glad that they will be able to get a little more recognition!

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[Buda]

I'm gald i have some suport.

id also apriciate if you'd post in here periodicly, just to keep it near the top so people can see it(in the boards i come from editing a post would bump it, but apparently thats not so here).

*this is a bump post in disguise*

[Silver Adept]

The computers and humans is usually put in joke form for me, but that's the gist of it. Garbage in, garbage out. Computers just spit out the garbage much, much faster...

[Akanari]

Snazziness to the tenth power. ^^ This will be especially helpful to the unwise people of or community.