Quote for the Day!

“If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word...

would you be rich or poor?”

“"Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)”

“"In the problem of decoding, the most important information which we can possess is the knowledge that the message which we are reading is not gibberish."
— Norbert Wiener”

“"I don't know quite what the purpose of the backgrounding was. She gave a background, she said what she said, and the way I read the memorandum is that it is basically what the responsibility of the NSC is and always has been ..."

"I happen not to know that she was going to write a memo, but that's true every day that somebody on the NSC writes a memorandum ... I mean I write memorandums that people don't know I'm writing until people receive it."

"I think you have to ask Condi that question."

"I said I don't know. Isn't that clear? You don't understand English? I was not there for the backgrounding."

- Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld”

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

--Abraham Lincoln”

“If you don't spend enough time in natural environments, you'll miss them and begin to hate work.

--Book of Nature Pants, Church of Sponge Bob Square Pants”

“To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

--Confucius”

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

--Vaclav Havel”

“From Miss Keller:

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”

“Nevermore.

- The Raven”

“"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862”

“Invoking the Hillary Monster has become the GOP's surest means of extracting cash from Moron-Americans who haven't already flung it away on RV excursions to Branson, Missouri or yielded to the pleas of faith-healing televangelists.
-- Gene Lyons”

“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

--Robert Louis Stevenson”

“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

--Humphrey Bogart”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
~ Groucho Marx”

“"My grandfather made all the money, I didn't have to do anything"
George W. Bush”

“The news that Rush Limbaugh is a pill-popping junkie who violates federal law in order to satisfy his addiction to narcotics has hit America like a ton of bricks. I, for one, had never even considered the possibility that a racist, misogynistic, homophobic demagogue might be morally flawed.
-- David Podvin”

“Who'd a-thunk it?”

“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."
- Al Capone (1899-1947)”

“"Ain't it the truth! Ain't it the truth!"

-- Snagglepuss”

“ditto's!!!”

“"To have 'news value' is to have a tin can tied to one's tail."

-- T.E. Lawrence”

“"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
- Henry Van Dyke”

“Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventually disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.
--Fran Lebowitz, 1981”

“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

--Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet”

“Do not take thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that the virtue is not given by money, but that from vitue come money and every other good of man, public as well as private... The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

--Socrates”

“It is rhe province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

-Oliver Wnedell Holmes”

“Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

-Calvin Ellis Stone”

“I like that last one, Mrs Chili”

“thanks, I like it as well.”

“WTF?? I used to spend hours comptemplating the meaning of life, searching for the appropriate quotes and then carefully timing my post here to maximize the impact.

Now, mrschili just wakes up in the morning, strolls in and posts and gets a better impact.

Oh well, I guess the upside is that I have more time to plan out the trips.”

“Not to feel bad, P-man. I read all your quotes and you come up with some great ones, my friend. I just don't always post it. Or am I trying to butter up your wife? Hee Hee :)”

“"Ack. Thpppbt."

-- Bill The Cat”

“Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures.

-Moliere”

“There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninteresting people.

-Glibert Keith Chesterson”

“I can resist everything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde”

“"Experts in public opinion said it would be difficult for Bush to convince Americans that the violence was a byproduct of success."
-- Dana Milbank and Thomas E. Ricks in the Washington Post”

“Ban Violin!

--Dunadan”

“'The more we take, the less we become.'
Sarah McLaughlin, Canadian singer/songwriter”

“Chili, I need a quote for the day!!”

“It's not enough to have a dream, Unless you're willing to pursue it. It's not enough to know what's right, Unless you're strong enough to do it. It's not enough to learn the truth, Unless you also learn to live it. It's not enough to reach for love, Unless you care enough to give it Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

--Samuel Smiles”

“Experience is a hard teacher, she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards. Spuditems”

“"Straight Out Of Line"

there's no reason
there's no compromise
change in seasons
living the high life
I don't know you
so don't freak on me
I can't control you
you're not my destiny

straight out of line
i can't find a reason
why i should justify my ways
straight out of line
i don't need a reason
you don't need to lie to me

i'll confess this you're my tradgety
i laid you to rest just
as fast as you turned on me
gone forever
vanished the memories
this face of pleasure
are masked by your misery

straight out of line
I can't find a reason
why i should justify my ways
straight out of line
I don't need a reason
you don't need to lie to me

lie to me

straight out of line
I can't find a reason
why I should justify my ways
straight out of line
I don't need a reason
you don't need to lie to me

Godsmack”

“Okay so...Listen Here

Click the "Watch" icon at "Straight Out of Line" and set your gain to 120dB. Doesn't really work otherwise. You just can't listen to these guys at a low volume.”

“If your attack is going too well, you're probably walking into an ambush.

- Infantry Journal”

“A child should give his parents no cause for anxiety except illness. Confucius”

“Vote early and vote often.
--Al Capone”