Quotes For The Day

[Marina]

Be the change you want to see in the world.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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If you are going to go through hell, keep going...
Winston Churchill

[Crimson Blonde]

Those are great Marina

[Crimson Blonde]

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

[Crimson Blonde]

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- PD James

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx

[Crimson Blonde]

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- AJ Liebling

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- BF Skinner

[Crimson Blonde]

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde

[ProfessorU]

This is my favorite nerd quote, appropriate for myself and any other computer geek lurkers:

"Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity."

[Crimson Blonde]

That's great Professor

[Crimson Blonde]

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

[Drs Orders]

Never argue with a idiot , they will bring you down to their level and beat with you with experience .

[Crimson Blonde]

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
- Walter Winchell

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
- Unknown

[Crimson Blonde]

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett

[Crimson Blonde]

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
- Kenneth Tynan

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks

[104456]

Theres one I cant quite remember but the gist is if you find yourself in a hole dont use a backhoe to dig yourself out.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
Oscar Wilde on his deathbed

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
General Sedgewick, killed in battle 1864, imprudently looking over the parapet at the enemy lines

Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad


Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
Francisco Villa (Pancho Villa)

[Crimson Blonde]

Good ones 1044