Quote of the Day

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck

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

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
- George Burns

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
- Warren Buffett

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
- Esther Dyson

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
- Gertrude Stein

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
- Sam Levenson

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
- Evan Esar

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
- Rex Stout

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. -
- Warren G. Bennis

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebling

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks

Everywhere is within walking distance, if you have the time.
- Steven Wright

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw

Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke

"Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac Man affected kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
- Marcus Brigstocke

"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
- Thomas H. Huxley

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."
- Leo Rosten

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing."
- Emo Philips

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

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
- Hodding Carter

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels."
- Bob Thaves

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
- Carl Sagan

"Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it."
- Anonymous

"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
- Mitchell Kapor

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
- Flannery O'Connor

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
- William Arthur Ward

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
- George Washington

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
- William Gibson

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

"Wise men talk because they have something to say. Fools talk because they have to say something."
- Plato

"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

"I never vote for anyone; I always vote against."
- W. C. Fields

"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches a lesson."
- Tom Bodett

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
- E. B. White

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?"
- Jeph Jacques

"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
- George Santayana

"O innocent victims of Cupid, Remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid, To let a kiss fool you is worse."
- E.Y. Harburg

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
- Walter Winchell

"People will buy anything that is one to a customer."
- Sinclair Lewis

"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
- Stephen Hawking

"If you can, help others. If you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."
- Dalai Lama

"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars."
- Garrison Keillor

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head."
- Andy Rooney

"The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary."
- Dave Kellett

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."
- Katharine Hepburn

"Results! I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
- Thomas Edison

"Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top."
- Paul Coffey

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
- Will Rogers

"If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it."
- Pierre Gallois

"Failure is an event, not a person. Think of failure as 'it' and not 'me'."
- Jeffrey Gitomer

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
- Jonathan Winters

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

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs."
- Unknown

"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits."
- Dan Barker

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas A. Edison

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."
- E. B. White

"The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect."
- Esther Dyson

"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood."
- Tom Hanks

"One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck."
- Carl Zuckmayer

"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
- Anne Tyler

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
- Douglas Adams

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost" and say, 'I lost it.'"
- Sydney J. Harris (1917 - 1986)

"I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends."
- Moby

"Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them.  If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars."
- Warren Buffet

"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
- Andrew W. Mathis

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Krishnamurti

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
- Albert Einstein

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
- Dale Carnegie

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond to them."
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
- Jennie Jerome Churchill

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."
- Plato

"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"
- Dave Barry

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
- George Orwell

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
- Alvin Toffler

"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
- Franz Kafka

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."
- Robert Frost

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
- W.B. Prescott

"The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong."
- Sir Colin Marshall

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
- Bill Gates, "Business @ The Speed of Thought"

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."
- G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing."
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
- Omar Bradley (1893-1981)

"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
- Noam Chomsky

"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde

"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells

"If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side."
- Orson Scott Card

"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
- Thomas Sowell