DATE     "TODAY'S QUOTE" ARCHIVE   Receive daily quotes from Quotes of the Day.
Current Scroll Board Text: CLICK HERE.
 
06/13/11   Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. -- Elbert Hubbard.
06/12/11   It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. -- P. G. Wodehouse.
06/11/11   Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
06/10/11   Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken.
06/09/11   The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. -- Oscar Wilde.
06/08/11   Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. -- Friedrich von Schiller.
06/07/11   I think the world is run by 'C' students. -- Al McGuire.
06/06/11   Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. -- Mark Twain.
05/28/11   People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. -- Bob Hope.
05/27/11   Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. -- Rita Rudner.
05/26/11   Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charles M. Schulz.
05/25/11   Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin.
05/24/11   If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. -- Edith Wharton.
05/23/11   Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. -- Epictetus.
05/22/11   The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. -- Peter Ustinov.
05/21/11   You're never too old to become younger. -- Mae West.
05/20/11   No human thing is of serious importance. -- Plato.
05/19/11   Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. -- Victor Hugo.
05/18/11   A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
05/17/11   Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. -- William Shakespeare.
05/16/11   It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. -- Steven Wright.
05/15/11   Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. -- Leo Rosten.
05/14/11   All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer.
05/13/11   Women should be obscene and not heard. -- Groucho Marx.
05/12/11   There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. -- Alice Thomas Ellis.
05/11/11   If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. -- Lois McMaster Bujold.
05/10/11   He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
05/09/11   Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison.
05/08/11   There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. -- Pablo Picasso.
05/07/11   Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. -- Norman Vincent Peale.
05/06/11   My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. -- Bette Davis.
05/05/11   When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. -- Marquis de la Grange.
05/04/11   Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken.
05/03/11   Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living. -- Mary Tyler Moore.
05/02/11   I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. -- Mark Twain.
05/01/11   You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright.
04/30/11   Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. -- Confucius.
04/29/11   It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca.
04/28/11   Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -- G. K. Chesterton.
04/27/11   We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. -- Charles Caleb Colton.
04/26/11   Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. -- Franklin P. Jones.
04/25/11   If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. -- Tallulah Bankhead.
04/24/11   The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost.
04/23/11   Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain.
04/22/11   The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. -- Jules Renard.
04/21/11   Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -- Henry Kissinger.
04/20/11   Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay.
04/19/11   Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -- W. C. Fields.
04/18/11   When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke.
04/17/11   I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -- Galileo Galilei.
04/16/11   My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. -- Rodney Dangerfield.
04/15/11   You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. -- Wayne Gretzky.
04/14/11   Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -- Anonymous.
04/13/11   I am no more humble than my talents require. -- Oscar Levant.
04/12/11   Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. -- Edward Gibbon.
04/11/11   There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. -- J. K. Rowling.
04/10/11   It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. -- W. Somerset Maugham.
04/09/11   My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. -- Henny Youngman.
04/08/11   Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. -- H. L. Mencken.
04/07/11   If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. -- Margaret Thatcher.
04/06/11   The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. -- Carl Jung.
04/05/11   The road to hell is paved with adverbs. -- Stephen King.
04/04/11   Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -- Calvin Coolidge.
04/03/11   Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard.
04/02/11   One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- Andre Gide.
04/01/11   Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess.
03/31/11   So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. -- Peter Drucker.
03/30/11   There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsche.
03/29/11   We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. -- Jeff Marder.
03/28/11   The most profound statements are often said in silence. -- Lynn Johnston.
03/27/11   If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. -- Yogi Berra.
03/26/11   'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble, 'the law is an ass, a idiot.' -- Charles Dickens (in 'Oliver Twist').
03/25/11   I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. -- Gerry Spence.
03/24/11   Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain.
03/23/11   Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. -- David T. Wolf.
03/22/11   Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw.
03/21/11   O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. -- Saint Augustine.
03/20/11   We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt Kelly.
03/19/11   Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington.
03/18/11   It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. -- Arthur C. Clarke.
03/17/11   To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. -- Robert Copeland.
03/16/11   If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. -- Henry Ford.
03/15/11   Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. -- Rita Rudner.
03/14/11   For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. -- Alice Kahn.
03/13/11   General principles should not be based on exceptional cases. -- Robert J. Sawyer.
03/12/11   I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. -- Tom Lehrer.
03/11/11   The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. -- Fran Lebowitz.
03/10/11   Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato.
03/09/11   The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -- Mahatma Gandhi.
03/08/11   I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson.
03/07/11   Too much of a good thing is wonderful. -- Mae West.
03/06/11   Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. -- Barry LePatner.
03/05/11   By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates.
03/04/11   My favorite animal is steak. -- Fran Lebowitz.
03/03/11   I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. -- Solomon Short.
03/02/11   Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. -- Edward R. Murrow.
03/01/11   Nothing you can't spell will ever work. -- Will Rogers.
02/28/11   There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. -- Stephen Colbert.
02/27/11   Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. -- Comte de Buffon.
02/26/11   Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. -- Timothy Leary.
02/25/11   I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. -- Robert McCloskey.
02/24/11   Laughter is inner jogging. -- Norman Cousins.
02/23/11   Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. -- Henry Ward Beecher.
02/22/11   Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. -- Mark Twain.
02/21/11   Everything you can imagine is real. -- Pablo Picasso.
02/20/11   Love's a total crap shoot. -- Julie Christie.
02/19/11   Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. -- Bob Edwards.
02/18/11   Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso.
02/17/11   Laughter is an instant vacation. -- Milton Berle.
02/16/11   Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin.
02/15/11   The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know. -- Will Rogers.
02/14/11   In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world. -- Henry David Thoreau.
02/13/11   Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -- John Stuart Mill.
02/12/11   A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. -- Patricia Neal.
02/11/11   I dote on his very absence. -- William Shakespeare.
02/10/11   Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. -- William Shakespeare.
02/09/11   I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. -- Mother Teresa.
02/08/11   I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. -- Agatha Christie.
02/07/11   1. Never tell everything at once. - Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life.
02/06/11   I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. -- Anne Tyler.
02/05/11   Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. -- Stephen King.
02/04/11   I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. -- Leontyne Price.
02/03/11   A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members. -- David Coblitz.
02/02/11   Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. -- P. G. Wodehouse.
02/01/11   Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair. -- Edmund Burke.
01/31/11   Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here! -- J. K. Rowling.
01/30/11   I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. -- Dave Barry.
01/29/11   The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. -- Nancy Astor.
01/28/11   I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. -- Mark Twain.
01/27/11   He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Sir Winston Churchill.
01/26/11   I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. -- Buzz Aldrin (1930 - ).
01/25/11   Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. -- Lillian Hellman.
01/24/11   Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. -- Miguel de Cervantes.
01/23/11   What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. -- Henry David Thoreau.
01/22/11   When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. -- Chuck Palahniuk.
01/21/11   The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. -- William J. Broad.
01/20/11   The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. -- Voltaire.
01/19/11   No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin.
01/18/11   It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. -- Lewis Carroll.
01/17/11   A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. -- Jessamyn West.
01/16/11   A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
01/15/11   The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. -- Thomas Jefferson.
01/14/11   Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. -- Oscar Wilde.
01/13/11   You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave. -- Sydney Smith.
01/12/11   Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. -- Margaret Mitchell.
01/11/11   In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
01/10/11   As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue. -- W. Somerset Maugham.
01/09/11   If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. -- Mario Andretti.
01/08/11   Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -- Demosthenes.
01/07/11   Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all. -- Woody Allen.
01/06/11   Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -- Isaac Newton.
01/05/11   Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. -- H. L. Mencken.
01/04/11   I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. -- Aeschylus.
01/03/11   Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx.
01/02/11   Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. -- Jules Renard.
01/01/11   If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. -- Oscar Wilde.


virtual St. Marys, Ohio
© 2011 www.ridertown.com
Aloha