Quote for the Day!

“Number Two: Why not use your knowledge of the future to play the stock markets? We could make trillions.
Dr. Evil: Why make a trillion when we could make... billions?
Scott: A trillion's more than a billion, numbnuts.”

“Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927”

“
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: You know, it's dangerous for you to be here in the frozen food section.
Shaldeen: Why is that?
Vincent 'Vinnie' Antonelli: Because you could melt all this stuff.

My Blue Heaven”

“Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

-- Ronald Reagan”

“"If we are wrong, the Constitution is wrong. If we are wrong, justice is a lie."

Martin King
(just before the Birmingham bus boycott)”

“The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.

-- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"”

“Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth;
Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust;
Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace;
Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe.

--Satish Kumar ("Prayer for Peace")”

“"The true quarry of any great adventurer is the undiscovered territory of their own soul."”

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

--Robyn Davidson”

“The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

--Charles Swindoll”

“The leaves lie thick on the paths of my memory"

~ Unknown (by me)”

“"That's no moon. It's a space station."

~ Obi-Wan Kenobi”

“If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.

--Lou Holtz”

“seems to me he threw all the life jackets out of the boat and left everone else to drown!”

“Things like that happen.”

“"Don't trust anyone over 30... except Buckminster Fuller."

-- Anon.”

“"Friday the 13th comes on Wensday this month."
Pogo”

“Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)”

“Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Bart Simpson”

“Victor Frankl:

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.”

“The Green Hornet is a 14 carat stinker!

Lenore Case”

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"Wow. Beauty, brains and a complete psycho... my Dream Girl."

-- Detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth)
speaking of Nicole Wallace (Olivia D'abo).
Law & Order: Criminal Intent

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“Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

--Rosalynn Carter”

“Disappointed by apes God created man. He then forewent further experiments!

--Mark Twain”

“There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.

--William R. Miller”

“"If you need help ask G-D,
If you don't - thank G-D"

-Neshema”

“Life is like an endless wave. Sometimes you're deep down, sometimes you're riding the top of the wave.

--my boss at work...”

“"Ho Ho Ho...Merry Christmas"

--Santa Claus”

“"Bah Humbug"

E. Scrooge”

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Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

- Phyllis Diller




The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

- Jay Leno




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.

- Shirley Temple

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“Aren't we forgeting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa.
Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons

Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons”

“Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.

--Dan Custer”

“"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be"

Attributed to Abe Lincoln, a man who suffered from great depressions. I try very hard to live by this.”

“Sometimes that's hard to do, Pamela. But it doesn't keep me from trying.”

“I got dibbs on the one with the long blonde hair and the purty mouth.

Sitting Bull - Battle of the Little Big Horn”

“Amen Chili!”

“Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his conscience and get its approval, without knowing force of specious knowledge, then he begins to know what real Happiness is.

--William G. Jordan”

“I call it "the quiet answer"”

“quote of the year:

"I'm looking at all of these [polls] and adding them up. I add up to a Republican Senate and a Republican House. You may end up with a different math, but you are entitled to your math, and I'm entitled to THE math."
— Karl Rove, Oct. 24, 2006”

“We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.
— Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody), Nuxalk Nation”

““The choice between two rival brands of margarine appears to have become more meaningful than the choice between Labour and the Conservatives.”

George Monbiot
Tuesday January 23, 2007
The Guardian
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“And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.

--Larry Winget (Success One Day At A Time)”

“Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying.

Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd.

Robert Anton Wilson, 1/06/07”

“rats!

Ped beat me to it.


It's very much reminiscent of something Art Buchwald said.”

“
Lyndon Johnson told the nation
Have no fear of escalation.
I am trying everyone to please.
Though it isn’t really war,
We’re sending 50,000 more
To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese.

Tom Paxton
c. 1965
”

“Always remember the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment.

-John Mack Carter”

“Philogyny recapitulates erogeny.”

“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, and Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
- Jaroslav Pelikan”

“God is dead.

-- Nietzche

Nietzche is dead.

-- God”