Quote of the Day, 2/25/09
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” — Seneca
Quote of the Day, 2/23/09
“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what’s best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something truly sacred.” — F. Rogers
Quote of the Day, 2/20/09
“Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and state, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.” — R. B. Hayes
Quote of the Day, 2/18/09
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.” — G. Orwell (E. Blair)
Quote of the Day, 2/16/09
“The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.” — N. Hawthorne
Quote of the Day, 2/13/09
“Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.” — C. Darwin
Quote of the Day, 2/11/09
“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.” — Sun Tzu
Quote of the Day, 2/9/09
“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.” — J. W. Krutch
Quote of the Day, 2/6/09
“Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.” — M. Tyson
Quote of the Day, 2/4/09
“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.” — Socrates
Quote of the Day, 2/2/09
“Connors’s metamorphosis [in Groundhog Day] contradicts almost everything postmodernity teaches. He doesn’t find paradise or liberation by becoming more “authentic,” by acting on his whims and urges and listening to his inner voices. That behavior is soul-killing. He does exactly the opposite: He learns to appreciate the crowd, the community, even the bourgeois hicks and their values. He determines to make himself better by reading poetry and the classics and by learning to sculpt ice and make music, and most of all by shedding his ironic detachment from the world.” — J. Goldberg
Quote of the Day, 1/30/09
“When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending to say, but you also perceive that he does not say it.” — M. Twain (S. Clemens)
Quote of the Day, 1/28/09
“The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.” — J. W. Krutch
Quote of the Day, 1/26/09
“I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy nor more wise — than he was 6,000 years ago.” — E. A. Poe
Quote of the Day, 1/22/09
“If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.” — M. Teresa
Quote of the Day, 1/20/09
“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.” — B. Obama
Quote of the Day, 1/16/09
“There’s a saying, ‘It’s easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.’ I’m going through that right now.” — B. Adams
Quote of the Day, 1/14/09
“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.” — A. Lincoln
Quote of the Day, 1/12/09
“Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.” — P.J. O’Rourke
Quote of the Day, 1/8/09
“When I come before the judgment throne, I will plead the promise of God in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. I will not plead any work that I have done, although I will thank God that he has enabled me to do some good. . . I will not plead that I had faith, for sometimes I was unsure of my faith, and in any event that would be to turn faith into a meritorious work of my own. . . Whatever little growth in holiness I have experienced, whatever strength I have received from the company of the saints, whatever understanding I have attained of God and His ways ”” these and all other gifts I have received I will bring gratefully to the throne. But in seeking entry to that heavenly kingdom, I will, with Dysmas, look to Christ and Christ alone.
Then I hope to hear Him say, ‘Today you will be with Me in paradise,’ as I hope with all my being ”” because, although looking to Him alone, I am not alone ”” He will say to all.” — Fr. R.J. Neuhaus (5/14/36-1/8/09)
Quote of the Day, 1/7/09
“If you want to know the people around you, find out what they read.” — J. Stalin
Quote of the Day, 1/5/09
“Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Unless a man starts on the strange assumption that he has never existed before, it is quite certain that he will never exist afterwards. Unless a man be born again, he shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” — G.K. Chesterton
Quote of the Day, 12/29/08
“Among the lessons every young man should learn is this one: All women who like you because you make them laugh sooner or later stop laughing, and then why do they like you?” — R. Ebert
Quote of the Day, 12/23/08
“It’s taken for granted that our bodies mature much earlier than our great-grandparents so we all need access to condoms and abortion by fifth grade, but apparently our minds need longer than ever, and in some cases until early middle age. So we enter adolescence much sooner and leave it a decade or more later.
“Right now, to put my demography hat on, the western world has a possibly terminal shortage of children. One reason it does is because the fellows on whom society traditionally depends for child-rearing — young adults — are staying in school until their mid-twenties and embarking on grown-up life ever later, if at all. Thirty percent of German women are childless; among university graduates, it’s 40 percent. The pursuit of a 100 percent college-educated populace is a recipe for societal suicide.” — M. Steyn
Quote of the Day, 12/22/08
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” — S. Temple
Quote of the Day, 12/19/08
“O ye beneath life’s crushing load, whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way, with painful steps and slow;
Look now, for glad and golden hours, come swiftly on the wing;
Oh rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing:
‘Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, from Heaven’s all-gracious King!’
The world in solemn stillness lay, to hear the angels sing.” — E.H. Sears
Quote of the Day, 12/17/08
“As a reader, I finally knew what I wanted to read, and as someone now yearning to become a writer, I knew exactly what I wanted to try to write: narratives of steep verbal topography, narratives in which the sentence is a complete, portable solitude, a minute immediacy of consummated language ”” the sort of sentence that, even when liberated from its receiving context, impresses itself upon the eye and the ear as a totality, an omnitude, unto itself.” — G. Lutz
Quote of the Day, 12/15/08
“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.” — V. Hugo
Quote of the Day, 12/12/08
“Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. “ — A. Pope
Devotional Excerpt of the Day, 12/11/08
“Living as we do in an imperfect world, we make our peace with its broken realities ”” sometimes we make our peace too easily. We begin to expect that we, too, will reflect its values. We begin to think that a bit of conspicuous consumption here, a degree of profanity there, a wandering and lustful eye here, a bit of sloth there, that all these things are normal, just part of being a person. It is and it isn\’t. It is normal, but it is far from the abundant life God has for us. And so Jesus asks us as well ”” ‘Do you want to be healed?'” — from Rev. Mike Jordan’s Advent devotion series. Check it out every day!
Quote of the Day, 12/10/08
“And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.” — F.S. Fitzgerald
Quote of the Day, 12/8/08
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.” — Aristotle
Quote of the Day, 12/5/08
“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.” — B. Pascal
Quote of the Day, 12/3/08
“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. It is always hungry for bread, sweaty with labor, struggling to wrest from nature and hostile men enough to feed its children. The welfare of the mass is always at odds with the selfish force of the strong. The exodus of the Roman plebeians and the Pennsylvania coal strike, the agrarian agitation of the Gracchi and the rising of the Russian peasants ”” it is all the same tragic human life.” — W. Rauschenbusch
Quote of the Day, 12/1/08
“Healing is precisely what Jesus promises. He promises to heal those who would be healed. His healing is not trite, never easy””there is always a cross to bear if you follow him. But, oh!””the healing he brings to his people, some of whom never suspect it.” — Rev. M. Jordan, in the introduction to his newest Advent devotional series on God’s healing.
Check it out, every day from now to Christmas, here at his site!
Quote of the Day, 11/26/08
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — J.F. Kennedy
Quote of the Day, 11/24/08
“It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.” — W.J. Cameron
Quote of the Day, 11/21/08
“Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.” — M. de Cervantes
Quote of the Day, 11/19/08
“The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.” — J. Burroughs
Quote of the Day, 11/17/08
“A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.” — C. Dickens
Quote of the Day, 11/14/08
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” — G.B. Shaw
Quote-Joke Hybrid of the Day, 11/12/08
J. Montagu (Earl of Sandwich) — “Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox.”
J. Wilkes — “That will depend, my Lord, on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”
Poem of the Day, 11/11/08
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Quote of the Day, 11/10/08
“You don’t become a rock star unless you’ve got something missing somewhere; that is obvious to me. If you were of sound mind or a more complete person, you could feel normal without 70,000 people a night screaming their love for you . . . It’s a real singer’s thing, missing mothers. Johnny Lydon, John Lennon, it seems to be the very heart of rock and roll, as missing fathers are to hip hop.” — Bono (P. D. Hewson)
Quote of the Day, 11/7/08
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” — G. Eliot (M. Evans)
Quote of the Day, 11/5/08
“By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.” — A. Lincoln
Quote of the Day, 11/3/08
“One of our great challenges is constantly to incorporate new experience, so as not to leave ourselves with a piece of brittle lace, the touching of which would cause it to crumble.” — W. F. Buckley, quoting J. H. Newman
Quote of the Day, 10/31/08
“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.” –E. A. Poe
Quote of the Day, 10/29/08
“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.” — D. Barry
Quote of the Day, 10/27/08
“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.” — St. Augustine
Quote of the Day, 10/24/08
“The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.” — G.K. Chesterton
Quote of the Day, 10/22/08
“Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.” — F. Kafka
Quote of the Day, 10/20/08
“The reason governments recognize marriage in the first place is to promote the well-being of children in the setting most conducive to their flourishing. There may or may not be great value in other types of relationships: those between friends, or heterosexual lovers, or relatives who take care of each other. But why should the government grant recognition to one subset of those non-marital relationships ”” those between people of the same sex who are sexually involved? What goal does such recognition serve?” — National Review
Quote of the Day, 10/16/08
“Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.” — H. James
Quote of the Day, 10/14/08
“Death is a dialogue between
The spirit and the dust.
‘Dissolve,’ says Death. The Spirit: ‘Sir,
I have another trust.’
“Death doubts it, argues from the ground.
The Spirit turns away,
Just laying off, for evidence,
An overcoat of clay.” — E. Dickinson
Quote of the Day, 10/10/08
“The glory of God is man fully alive; moreover man’s life is the vision of God: if God’s revelation through creation has already obtained life for all the beings that dwell on earth, how much more will the Word’s manifestation of the Father obtain life for those who see God.” — St. Irenaeus
Quote of the Day, 10/8/08
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep joy and the word\’s deep hunger meet.” — F. Buechner
Quote of the Day, 10/6/08
“Manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.” — G. Eliot (M. Evans)
Quote of the Day, 10/3/08
“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.” — M. de Montaigne
Quote of the Day, 10/1/08
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” — R. Kipling
Quote of the Day, 9/29/08
“Tolerance is only another name for indifference.” — W.S. Maugham
Quote of the Day, 9/26/08
“In the world to come, I shall not be asked, ‘Why were you not Moses?’ I shall be asked, ‘Why were you not Zusya?'” — Rabbi Zusya
Quote of the Day, 9/24/08
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” — O. Welles
Quote of the Day, 9/22/08
“Sport is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things — courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. Sport should be the triumph of character, openly tested . . . “ — G. Will
Quote of the Day, 9/19/08
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” — G. Eliot (M. Evans)
Quote of the Day, 9/17/08
“A soup without potatoes is like life without love.” — Andean proverb
Quote of the Day, 9/15/08
“If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.” — D.F. Wallace (2/21/62-9/12/08)
Quotes of the Day, 9/11/08
“For those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we\’ll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.” — President G.W. Bush
“The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic and religious freedom, the rule of law and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.” — R. Giuliani
Quote of the Day, 9/10/08
“A feminism that cannot admire the bravura under high pressure of the first woman governor of a frontier state isn’t worth a warm bucket of spit.” — C. Paglia
Quote of the Day, 9/8/08
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.” — A. Dumas
Quote of the Day, 9/4/08
“Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.” — G. Eliot (M. Evans)
Quote of the Day, 9/2/08
“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
Quote of the Day, 8/29/08
“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.” — M.L. King, Jr.
Quote of the Day, 8/27/08
“One cannot think truly about a story with which one is not sympathetically engaged. Love is sometimes blind, but contempt is always blind.” — Fr. R.J. Neuhaus
Quote of the Day, 8/25/08
“History is a tragedy to those who remember, a comedy only to those who forget.” — D. Frum
Quote of the Day, 8/22/08
“An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him — and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.” — K. Coleman
Quote of the Day, 8/20/08
“Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” — O.W. Holmes, Sr.
Quote of the Day, 8/18/08
“What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.” — R. C. F. Aron
Quote of the Day, 8/15/08
“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. . . man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. . . For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.” — F. Dostoyevsky
Quote of the Day, 8/13/08
“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.” — W. Allen
Quote of the Day, 8/11/08
“Taking in my opponent’s performances is a little like watching a big summer blockbuster, and an hour in, realizing that all the best scenes were in the trailer you saw last fall.” — J. McCain
Quote of the Day, 8/8/08
““Olympism is not a system — it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy – a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.” — P. de Coubertin
Quote of the Day, 8/6/08
“Barack wants to focus on new technologies to cut foreign oil dependency. And McCain wants offshore drilling. Well, why don’t we do a hybrid of both candidates’ ideas? We can do limited offshore drilling with strict environmental oversight while creating tax incentives to get Detroit making hybrid and electric cars. That way, the offshore drilling carries us until the new technologies kick in, which will then create new jobs and energy independence. Energy crisis solved!” — P. Hilton
Quote of the Day, 8/4/08
“If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his body is doomed to die, his task on earth evidently must be of a more spiritual nature. It cannot be unrestrained enjoyment of everyday life. It cannot be the search for the best ways to obtain material goods and then cheerfully get the most out of them. It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent, earnest duty so that one’s life journey may become an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being than one started it.” — A. Solzhenitsyn (12/11/18-8/3/08)
Quote of the Day, 8/1/08
“Society is composed of nothing more than a great number of individuals, and if each man’s morality is defined merely to suit himself, then everyone will endure the consequences of the individual’s autonomously defined ethics.” — W.F. Buckley
Quote of the Day, 7/30/08
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” — W. Churchill
Quote of the Day, 7/28/08
“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” — P.J. O’Rourke
Quote of the Day, 7/24/08
“America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. “ — G. W. Bush
Quote of the Day, 7/22/08
“If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.” — J. Bunyan
Quote of the Day, 7/18/08
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” — G.G. Marquez
Quote of the Day, 7/16/08
“But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.” — H. Melville
Quote of the Day, 7/10/08
“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.” — M. de Cervantes
Quote of the Day, 7/8/08
“Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There’s no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere.” — G. Marx
Quote of the Day, 7/3/08
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Quote of the Day, 7/1/08
“Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest.” — W. Faulkner
Quote of the Day, 6/27/08
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — G.K. Chesterton
Quote of the Day, 6/25/08
“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience — not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” — L. Tolstoy
Quote of the Day, 6/23/08
“When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.” — L. Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland
Quote of the Day, 6/19/08
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” — F. Dostoevsky
Quote of the Day, 6/17/08
“In summer, the song sings itself.” — W.C. Williams
Quote of the Day, 6/13/08
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — H. Ford
Quote of the Day, 6/11/08
“Parents are not interested in justice; they’re interested in peace and quiet.” — B. Cosby
Quote of the Day, 6/9/08
“[London tea-shops] have an atmosphere of their own. They rely for their effect on an insufficiency of light, an almost total lack of ventilation, a property chocolate cake which you are not supposed to cut, and the sad aloofness of their ministering angels. It is to be doubted whether there is anything in the world more damping to the spirit than a London tea-shop of this kind, unless it be another London tea-shop of the same kind.” — P.G. Wodehouse
Quote of the Day, 6/4/08
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” — E. Burke
Quote of the Day, 6/2/08
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” — B.F. Skinner
Quote of the Day, 5/29/08
“Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.” — L.B. Johnson
Quote of the Day, 5/27/08
“This extraordinary war in which we are engaged falls heavily upon all classes of people, but the most heavily upon the soldier. For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country’s cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier.” — A. Lincoln
Quote of the Day, 5/22/08
“You will not find lasting happiness by pursuing it. Happiness is the byproduct of a contented life. And the surest path to a contented life is to put the needs of others before your own.” — W. McGurn, in a fantastic commencement address
Quote of the Day, 5/20/08
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times . . . and then just expect that other countries are going to say ‘OK.’ “ — B. Obama
Quote of the Day, 5/16/08
“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.” — Plato
Quote of the Day, 5/14/08
“There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.” — P. Buck
Quote of the Day, 5/12/08
“There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.” — J.W. von Goethe
Quote of the Day, 5/8/08
“The substance and essence of Christianity, as I understand it, is eternal and unchangeable, and will bear examination forever, but it has been mixed with extraneous ingredients, which I think will not bear examination, and they ought to be separated.” — J. Adams
Quote of the Day, 5/6/08
“Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on [scientific] topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn.” — St. Augustine
Quote of the Day, 5/1/08
“The blood that cleanses the conscience from dead works, cleanses from selfishness too; the love it reveals is pardoning love, that takes possession of us and flows through us to others. Our forgiving love to men is the evidence of the reality of God\’s forgiving love in us, and so the condition of the prayer of faith.” — A. Murray
Quote of the Day, 4/29/08
“Too many people want to have written.” — T. Pratchett
Quote of the Day, 4/25/08
“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.” — E. A. Poe
Quote of the Day, 4/22/08
“Freedom is not only a gift, but also a summons to personal responsibility. Americans know this from experience ”” almost every town in this country has its monuments honoring those who sacrificed their lives in defense of freedom, both at home and abroad. The preservation of freedom calls for the cultivation of virtue, self-discipline, sacrifice for the common good, and a sense of responsibility towards the less fortunate.” — Pope Benedict XVI
Quote of the Day, 4/17/08
“In the face of Justice Stevens\’ experience, the experience of all others is, it appears, of little consequence. The experience of the state legislatures and the Congress ”” who retain the death penalty as a form of punishment ”” is dismissed as ‘the product of habit and inattention rather than an acceptable deliberative process.’ The experience of social scientists whose studies indicate that the death penalty deters crime is relegated to a footnote. The experience of fellow citizens who support the death penalty is described, with only the most thinly veiled condemnation, as stemming from a ‘thirst for vengeance.’ It is Justice Stevens\’ experience that reigns over all.” — the Honorable A. Scalia, concurring, in Baze v Rees
Quote of the Day, 4/15/08
“You don’t pay taxes — they take taxes.” — C. Rock
Quote of the Day, 4/11/08
“Bruce [Wilkinson, author of The Prayer of Jabez] says that even if you’re a Christian that God has withheld His blessings from you (the ‘flood-waters of blessing’ as he says) and that He’ll give them to you if you systematically pray this rather obscure Old Testament prayer.
“I would challenge that idea and say that if you believe upon Christ for your salvation today, God has withheld nothing from you. In fact, He has already flooded all of the blessing you could ever imagine into your life, and that IS Jesus. He is ALL of the blessing. He is ALL our reward. He is sufficient for all of our needs and we should in Him be satisfied. What more could anyone possibly offer you?” — D. Webb
Quote of the Day, 4/9/08
“In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.” — J. Austen
Quote of the Day, 4/4/08
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.” — M.L. King, Jr. (1/15/1929-4/4/1968)
Quote of the Day, 4/1/08
“After picking, the spaghetti is laid out to dry in the warm Alpine air. Many people are very puzzled by the fact that spaghetti is produced in such uniform lengths. This is the result of many years of patient endeavour by plant breeders who succeeded in producing the perfect spaghetti.” — the BBC, 4/1/1957, in perhaps the most successful April Fool’s prank in modern history
Quote of the Day, 3/27/08
“There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.” — P.G. Wodehouse
Quote of the Day, 3/25/08
“If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.” — B. Goldwater
Quote of the Day, 3/21/08
“As out of Jesus’ affliction came a new sense of God’s love and a new basis for love between men, so out of our affliction we may grasp the splendor of God’s love and how to love one another. Thus the consummation of the two commandments was on Golgotha; and the Cross is, at once, their image and their fulfillment.” — M. Muggeridge
Quote of the Day, 3/18/08
“My game is like the Pythagorean theorem, no one has an answer.” — S. O’Neal
Quote of the Day, 3/14/08
“Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.” — E. Spitzer, March 2006
Quote of the Day, 3/12/08
“All seem to have a part of truth and a part of error and each espies the error of others and fails to see his own. May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.” — M. Servetus
Quote of the Day, 3/10/08
“[St. Francis] no longer worried, not because he was a naive optimist, but because he had become in prayer and penance a realist who saw the unimportance of everything but God, and in God and with Him and through Him, the importance of everything.” — Fr. M. Bodo
The Best of the Quotes (November through February)
November 2, 2007: “There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” — S. Clemens
December 3, 2007: “Freedom must constantly be won over for the cause of good. Free assent to the good never exists simply by itself. If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined — good — state of the world, man’s freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all.” — Pope Benedict XVI
December 19, 2007: “The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.” — S. Johnson
January 29, 2008: “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” — G.K. Chesterton
February 8, 2008: “One thousand moustaches can live together, but not four breasts.” — Hindu proverb
The Best of the Quotes (July through October)
July 9, 2007: “Divisions are not always bad. When to unite and when to divide, that is the question, and a right answer requires the wisdom of a Solomon.” — A.W. Tozer
August 16, 2007: “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” — M. Teresa
September 13, 2007: “If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.” — W.L. Phelps
October 1, 2007: “In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” — C.S. Lewis
October 5, 2007: “Great art can be made out of love for religion as well as rebellion against it. But a totally secularized society with contempt for religion sinks into materialism and self-absorption and gradually goes slack, without leaving an artistic legacy.” — C. Paglia
The Best of the Quotes (March through June)
March 21, 2007: “After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” — Cato the Elder
April 6, 2007: “I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself there.” — F. Allen
May 2, 2007: “If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.” – D. Marquis
May 18, 2007: “Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.” — F. Allen or E. Kovacs
June 11, 2007: “We have become long on quantity,
But short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
But slow digestion;
Tall men, but short character;
Steep profits, but shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window
But nothing in the room.” — the Dalai Lama
June 13, 2007: “[T]he life appointed to me to live on earth is, like all other lives, a good gift given to me by Love. It is not something to be lightly tossed aside. It is, in fact, never to be tossed aside.
“Death is not a matter of choice. It is a reality to be confronted, not because it is evil, but because it is a good, bringing to an end the richness of Grace poured on us in the fullness of our human lives.
“Though that Grace always includes a hefty portion of suffering, I desire every bit of it, however hard, that I can bear.” — J. Leax
Quote of the Day, 2/28/08
“Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.” — William F. Buckley (1925-2008)
Quote of the Day, 2/26/08
“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending.” — JRR Tolkien
Quote of the Day, 2/22/08
“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” — D. Adams
Quote of the Day, 2/20/08
“In all things it is better to hope than to despair.” — J.W. von Goethe
Quote of the Day, 2/18/08
“Those seeking to respond to the Spirit’s call for renewal and restoration must be ever so careful that self-seeking, resentment, frustration, and desire for power do not lead them beyond what is truly from the Spirit of God.” — R. Martin
Quote of the Day, 2/14/08
“Men will always be what it pleases women for them to be; therefore, if you want men to be great and virtuous, teach women the meaning of greatness of soul and virtue.” — J-J. Rousseau
Quote of the Day, 2/12/08
“Marriage isn’t a passion-fest; it’s more like a partnership formed to run a very small, mundane, and often boring nonprofit business.” — L. Gottlieb
Quote of the Day, 2/8/08
“One thousand moustaches can live together, but not four breasts.” — Hindu proverb
Quote of the Day, 2/6/08
“In politics . . . shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.” — A. de Tocqueville
Quote of the Day, 2/4/08
“23-17.” — P. Burress
Quote of the Day, 1/31/08
“I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.” — A. Lincoln
Quote of the Day, 1/29/08
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” — G.K. Chesterton
Quote of the Day, 1/25/08
“If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it.” — P. Beaumarchais
Quote of the Day, 1/23/08
“I feel like King Kong, hideous, but with a soft and tender heart.” — Y. Zhenhuan, the world’s hairiest man
Quote of the Day, 1/21/08
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.” — M.L. King, Jr.
Quote of the Day, 1/17/08
“I think it’s a privilege to call yourself a Scientologist, and it’s something that you have to earn, because a Scientologist does. He, or she, has the ability to create new and better realities and improve conditions. Uh, being a Scientologist, you look at someone and you know absolutely that you can help them . . . Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it’s not like anyone else. As you drive past, you know you have to do something about it, because you know you’re the only one who can really help . . . We are the authorities on getting people off drugs, we are the authorities on the mind . . . we are the way to happiness. We can bring peace and unite cultures . . . “ — T. Cruise
Watch the crazy man here! My ‘favorite’ part is his crazy-man crazy laughter with 5 minutes to go, talking about SPs, or ‘suppressive people.’
Quote of the Day, 1/15/08
“I am not attempting to be exonerated because I meet your standard of reasonableness, because first of all I don’t care what your standard of reasonableness is . . . I don’t grant you at all the right to sit in judgment of whether or not I’m reasonable. I’ll grant that to my advertisers, I’ll grant that to my readers, I’ll grant that to friends and people in the social society who may marginalize me or shun me if I’m too rude . . . I will suffer the penalties of civil society, I will suffer the marginalization of polite company . . . I will suffer that from my fellow man voluntarily, but I do not grant to you or any other instrument of the state the right to tell me whether or not I am reasonable enough to pass your test.” — E. Levant
Quote of the Day, 1/11/08
“Iowa and New Hampshire will do anything to be first. You populous states can’t beat them, because they want it more than you do. They’re like the people who camp out for two weeks so they can be in front of the line to buy tickets for a hot concert, except that instead of a hot concert, it’s a chance to shake hands with Duncan Hunter six different times.” — D. Barry
Quote of the Day, 1/9/08
“I want all them kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.” — A. Dawson
Quote of the Day, 1/7/08
“To be ignorant of the past is to forever be a child. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?” — Cicero
Quote of the Day, 12/21/07
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulders; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” — Isaiah
Quote of the Day, 12/19/07
“The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.” — S. Johnson
Quote of the Day, 12/17/07
“And I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday — the longer, the better — from the great boarding school, where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.” — C. Dickens
Quote of the Day, 12/13/07
“When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
and etched on vacant places
are half-forgotten faces
of friends we used to cherish,
and loves we used to know.”
— E.W. Wilcox
Quote of the Day, 12/11/07
“The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.” — Augustine
Quote of the Day, 12/7/07
“With confidence in our armed forces — with the unbounding determination of our people — we will gain the inevitable triumph – so help us God.” — F. Roosevelt
Quote of the Day, 12/5/07
“How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O!, ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.” — B. Franklin
Quote of the Day, 12/3/07
“Freedom must constantly be won over for the cause of good. Free assent to the good never exists simply by itself. If there were structures which could irrevocably guarantee a determined — good — state of the world, man’s freedom would be denied, and hence they would not be good structures at all.” — Pope Benedict XVI
Quote of the Day, 11/29/07
“Wise men, if they try to speak their language to the common herd instead of its own, cannot possibly make themselves understood.” — J.J. Rousseau
Quote of the Day, 11/27/07
“I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.” — A. Tocqueville
Quote of the Day, 11/22/07
“What our forefathers with so much difficulty secured, do not basely relinquish.” — the gravestone of W. Bradford, proclaimer of the first Thanksgiving
Quote of the Day, 11/20/07
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall have not died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” — A. Lincoln, who delivered it seven score and four years ago yesterday
Quote of the Day, 11/16/07
“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.” — O. Nash
Quote of the Day, 11/14/07
“If we wanted to simulate conditions in Beijing, [U.S. marathon] athletes would run behind a large diesel bus through the streets of New Orleans in the dead of summer.” — G. Latimer
Quote of the Day, 11/12/07
“How I hated mushrooms as a kid. They looked slimy and inedible, like stiffened slices of ruminant sputum.” — J. Lileks
Quote of the Day, 11/8/07
“Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough.” — H. D. Thoreau
Quote of the Day, 11/6/07
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C.S. Lewis
Quote of the Day, 11/2/07
“There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.” — S. Clemens
Quote of the Day, 10/31/07
“The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.” — H. Clinton
Quote of the Day, 10/29/07
“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.” — Socrates
Quote of the Day, 10/25/07
“I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.” — J. Austen
Quote of the Day, 10/23/07
“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.” — G.B. Shaw
Quote of the Day, 10/19/07
“Multiculturalism is simply the state between two different cultures.” — J. Lileks
Quote of the Day, 10/17/07
“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing — after they have exhausted all other possibilities.” — W. Churchill
Quote of the Day, 10/15/07
“There are two kinds of people in the world: Those that divide everybody into groups, and those that overgeneralize.” — B. Pershing
Quote of the Day, 10/11/07
“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.” — A.B. Alcott
Quote of the Day, 10/9/07
“You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.” — R. Nixon
Quote of the Day, 10/5/07
“Great art can be made out of love for religion as well as rebellion against it. But a totally secularized society with contempt for religion sinks into materialism and self-absorption and gradually goes slack, without leaving an artistic legacy.” — C. Paglia
Quote of the Day, 10/3/07
“The only rules you have are the ones you enforce.” — D. Chamberlain
Quote of the Day, 10/1/07
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” — C.S. Lewis
Quote of the Day, 9/27/07
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.” — E. Hubbard
Quote of the Day, 9/25/07
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — W.S. Maugham
Quote of the Day, 9/21/07
“You can lead a fool to a book, but you can’t make [him] think.” — J. Murray
Quote of the Day, 9/19/07
“It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.” — Y. Berra
Quote of the Day, 9/17/07
“Some tortures are physical
And some are mental,
But the one that is both
Is dental.” — O. Nash
Quote of the Day, 9/13/07
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.” — W. L. Phelps
Quote of the Day, 9/11/07
“It will not be quick and it will not be easy. Our adversaries are not one or two terrorist leaders, or even a single terrorist organization or network. It’s a broad network of individuals and organizations that are determined to terrorize and, in so doing, to deny us the very essence of what we are: free people. They don’t live in Antarctica. They work, they train and they plan in countries. They’re benefiting from the support of governments. They’re benefiting from the support of non-governmental organizations that are either actively supporting them with money, intelligence and weapons or allowing them to function on their territory, and tolerating, if not encouraging, their activities. In either case, it has to stop.
“We’ll have to deal with the networks. One of the ways to do that is to drain the swamp they live in. And that means dealing not only with the terrorists, but those who harbor terrorists. This will take a long, sustained effort. It will require the support of the American people as well as our friends and allies around the world.” — D. Rumsfeld, 9/18/01
Quote of the Day, 9/7/07
“Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — G. Will
Quote of the Day, 9/5/07
“One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.” — T. Sowell
Quote of the Day, 9/4/07
“Plump women of sixty-seven or eight have a family resemblance.” — J. Updike
Quote of the Day, 8/30/07
“I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.” — H. Broun
Quote of the Day, 8/28/07
“I personally believe, that US Americans are unable to do so, because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education, like such as, South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere like, such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the US, should help the US, or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future.” — L. Upton, Miss Teen South Carolina, explaining why 20% of Americans cannot find our country on a world map
Quote of the Day, 8/24/07
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.” — S. Williams
Quote of the Day, 8/22/07
“Strange as it may appear, when I want any good head-work done I choose a man, provided his education has been suitable, with a long nose. His breathing is bold and free, and his brain, as well as his lungs and heart, cool and clear. In my observation of men I have almost invariably found a long nose and a long head go together.” — Napoleon
Quote of the Day, 8/20/07
“We need people to make visible the great embracing and compassionate message of Christianity, people to continue the revolution started by Christ Himself, people to bear witness that the story of Jesus Christ is going on and on without end, gaining power with each century, and reaching more and more people. We need saints. We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough. The world doesn’t need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.” — A. Rice
Quote of the Day, 8/16/07
“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” — M. Teresa
Quote of the Day, 8/14/07
“Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.” — A. Landers
Quote of the Day, 8/10/07
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle
Quote of the Day, 8/8/07
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.” — G. Keillor
Quote of the Day, 8/6/07
“I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.” — F. Willard
Quote of the Day, 8/2/07
“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.” — J. Lahr
Quote of the Day, 7/31/07
“[Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden] loves his voice so much, you’d expect him to be following it around in a grey Buick, in defiance of a restraining order, as it walks home from school.” — J. Goldberg
Quote of the Day, 7/27/07
“Don’t be ashamed if you can’t play the piano. Be proud of it.” — E.W. Howe
Quote of the Day, 7/25/07
“I’m glad I did it, partly because it was well worth it, but chiefly because I shall never have to do it again.” — S. Clemens
Quote of the Day, 7/23/07
“Because they have fallen in love with ultimacy, saints are people of extreme behavior.” — D. Spoto
Quote of the Day, 7/19/07
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” — R. Reagan
Quote of the Day, 7/17/07
“The only rules we have are the ones we enforce.” — D. Chamberlain
Quote of the Day, 7/13/07
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” — A. Solzhenitsyn
Quote of the Day, 7/11/07
“Like every other man,
I was born with a knife in one hand,
and a wound in the other.” — G. Orr
Quote of the Day II, 7/9/07
It is hard to recall an enemy so savage and yet one so largely ignored by rich affluent and distracted elites as the radical jihadists, as we have to evoke everything from mythology to comic books to find analogies to their extra-human viciousness.
For a self-congratulatory culture issuing moral lectures on everything from global warming to the dangers of smoking, the silence of the West toward the primordial horror from Gaza to Anbar is, well, horrific in its own way as well…
Read more from Victor Davis Hanson here.
Quote of the Day, 7/9/07
“Divisions are not always bad. When to unite and when to divide, that is the question, and a right answer requires the wisdom of a Solomon.” — A.W. Tozer
Quote of the Day, 7/5/07
“Whoever doesn’t start by acknowledging their own inadequacy will never enter the God-centered life. Whoever pretends that they’re big enough and strong enough to do it on their own can never know the joy of being truly intimate with God, because to be truly intimate with God you have to become dependent on him.” — M. Jordan
Quote of the Day, 7/3/07
“In my youth, there were certain words you couldn’t say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can’t say ‘girl.'” — T. Lehrer
Quote of the Day, 6/29/07
“I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little.” — Voltaire
Quote of the Day, 6/27/07
“He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say “When!”” — P.G. Wodehouse
Quote of the Day, 6/25/07
““A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.”” — R. Wurmbrand
Quote of the Day, 6/21/07
“Time is not a factor for an album to reach platinum. In theory, Chumbawamba’s self titled album could reach platinum in 500 years.” — Anonymous
Quote of the Day, 6/19/07
“We are all just one little cell within the Body, very full of life, but only a small part of the whole. Cells are born and cells die, but the Body lives forever.” — S. Claiborne
Quote of the Day, 6/15/07
“If every journey makes us wiser about the world, it also returns us to a sort of childhood. In alien parts, we speak more simply, in our own or some other language, more freely, unencumbered by the histories that we carry around at home, and look more excitedly, with eyes of wonder.” — P. Iyer
Quote of the Day, 6/13/07
“[T]he life appointed to me to live on earth is, like all other lives, a good gift given to me by Love. It is not something to be lightly tossed aside. It is, in fact, never to be tossed aside.
Death is not a matter of choice. It is a reality to be confronted, not because it is evil, but because it is a good, bringing to an end the richness of Grace poured on us in the fullness of our human lives.
Though that Grace always includes a hefty portion of suffering, I desire every bit of it, however hard, that I can bear.” — J. Leax
Quote of the Day, 6/11/07
“We have become long on quantity,
But short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
But slow digestion;
Tall men, but short character;
Steep profits, but shallow relationships.
It is a time when there is much in the window
But nothing in the room.” — the Dalai Lama
Quote of the Day, 6/7/07
“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.” — H. Amiel
Quote of the Day, 6/5/07
“There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.” — D. DeLillo
Quote of the Day, 6/1/07
“Baseball is like church; many attend, but few understand.” — W. Westrum
Quote of the Day, 5/30/07
“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.” — R. Reagan
Quote of the Day, 5/28/07
“It is not only the living who are killed in war.” — I. Asimov
Quote of the Day, 5/24/07
“War is like love; it always finds a way.” – B. Brecht
Quote of the Day, 5/22/07
“No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.” — H.B. Stowe
Quote of the Day, 5/18/07
“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.” — F. Allen or E. Kovacs
Quote of the Day, 5/16/07
“No sane man will dance.” — Cicero
Quote of the Day, 5/14/07
“You are steadfast, constant in yourself; but we are tossed on a tide that puts us to the proof, and if we could not sob our troubles in your ear, what hope should we have left to us?” — St. Augustine of Hippo
Quote of the Day, 5/10/07
“Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.” — L. Burbank
Quote of the Day, 5/8/07
“Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.” – R.W. Emerson
Quote of the Day, 5/4/07
“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.” – Jerry Lewis
Quote of the Day, 5/2/07
“If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.” – D. Marquis
Quote of the Day, 4/30/07
“Old men miss many dogs.
They only live a dozen years, if that,
and by the time you are sixty, there are several,
the names of which evoke remembering smiles.
You see them in your mind, heads cocked and seated,
you see them by your bed, or in the rain,
or sleeping by the fire by nights,
and always dying.
They are remembered like departed children
though they gave vastly more than ever they took,
and finally you’re seeing dogs that look like them.
They pass you in the street but never turn
although it seems they should,
their faces so familiar.
Old men miss many dogs.”
-S. Allen
(RIP, Liberty Diefenbaker Proton Fay)
Quote of the Day, 4/26/07
“I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.” – Alexandre Dumas, fils
Quote of the Day, 4/24/07
“Every man sees in his relatives . . . a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.” – H.L. Mencken
Quote of the Day, 4/20/07
“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.” – A. Lincoln, in a book review
Quote of the Day, 4/18/07
“The art of not reading is highly important. This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time.” – A. Schopenhauer
Quote of the Day, 4/16/07
“Very few people do anything creative after the age of 35. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of 35.” – J. Hildebrand
Quote of the Day, 4/12/07
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” – M. Twain
Quote of the Day, 4/10/07
“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.” – B. Berenson
Quote of the Day, 4/6/07
“I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself there.” – F. Allen
Quote of the Day, 4/4/07
“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.” – G.K. Chesterton
Quote of the Day, 4/2/07
“I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.” – J. Carson
Quote of the Day, 3/29/07
“. . . human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.
Time past and time future
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.” – T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton
Quote of the Day, 3/27/07
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis
Quote of the Day, 3/23/07
“Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.” – B. Russell
Quote of the Day, 3/21/07
“After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.” – Cato the Elder
Quote of the Day, 3/19/07
“Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:
More needs she the divine than the physician.” – Shakespeare, Macbeth V:i
Quote of the Day, 3/15/07
“Rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.” – F. Zappa
Quote of the Day, 3/13/07
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.” – J. Ciardi
Quote of the Day, 3/9/07
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.” – Gail Godwin
Quote of the Day, 3/7/07
“I shall have this good at least: that till death I shall have done all that is in me to love Him.” – Brother Lawrence
Quote of the Day, 3/5/07
“Don’t be ashamed if you can’t play the piano. Be proud of it.” – E.W. Howe
Quote of the Day, 3/1/07
“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.” – Chauncey Depew
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