Quote of the Day

2006-07-24T20:40:00.000-04:00

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. – Winston Churchill, November 10, 1942

2006-07-20T18:46:00.000-04:00

I am only an average man, but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. – Theodore Roosevelt

2006-07-18T17:23:00.000-04:00

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. – John F. Kennedy

2006-07-13T17:51:00.000-04:00

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’ – Sydney J. Harris

2006-07-11T18:52:00.000-04:00

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance. – Union General John Sedgwick, d. May 9, 1864, last words

2006-07-06T18:53:00.000-04:00

Maps encourage boldness. They’re like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. – Mark Jenkins

2006-06-29T17:40:00.000-04:00

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim. – James A. Garfield

2006-06-27T18:48:00.000-04:00

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. – Ambrose Bierce

2006-06-22T17:43:00.000-04:00

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There’s just one problem - it’s in North Korea. – John Stewart

2006-06-20T17:51:00.000-04:00

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. – Theodore Roosevelt

2006-06-15T17:13:00.000-04:00

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is. – Chuck Reid

2006-06-13T18:33:00.000-04:00

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley

2006-06-09T17:25:00.000-04:00

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. – Terry Pratchett

2006-06-07T17:25:00.000-04:00

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. – H. L. Mencken

2006-06-02T17:22:00.000-04:00

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. – Oscar Wilde

2006-05-31T18:43:00.000-04:00

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. – Henry C. Link

2006-05-24T17:29:00.000-04:00

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. – Martin Mull

2006-05-19T17:53:00.000-04:00

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. – Cadet maxim, USMA, West Point, NY

2006-05-18T17:09:00.000-04:00

Failure is the line of least persistence. – Alfred Brandt

2006-05-17T18:00:00.000-04:00

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. – P.J. O’Rourke

2006-05-16T17:32:00.000-04:00

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America. – Henry A. Wallace, Vice President from 1941-1945

2006-05-15T17:48:00.000-04:00

The word “politics” is derived from the word “poly,” meaning “many,” and the word “ticks,” meaning “blood sucking parasites.” – Larry Hardiman

2006-05-12T17:46:00.000-04:00

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. – Mark Twain

2006-05-11T21:39:00.000-04:00

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. – Erich Fromm

2006-05-10T18:22:00.002-04:00

What does it mean when guys like us get off to a bad start? Not a goddamn thing! – Phil Harris, Captain of the Alaskan crab-fishing boat Cornelia Marie

2006-05-09T17:36:00.000-04:00

A fair and honest narrative of the bad is a voucher for the truth of the good. – Thomas Jefferson

2006-05-08T18:43:00.000-04:00

Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now. – Victor E. Frankl

2006-05-05T18:17:00.000-04:00

Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States. – Porfirio Diaz

2006-05-04T17:38:00.000-04:00

America, you lost. – Zacarias Moussaoui, upon being sentenced to life in prison

2006-05-03T17:44:00.000-04:00

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway

2006-05-02T18:48:00.000-04:00

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright

2006-05-01T17:39:00.000-04:00

I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq. – Stephen Colbert, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

2006-04-28T09:54:00.000-04:00

There is nothing so inimical to liberty as the collectivist spirit, no ill-conceived idea so disastrous in its effects as the ‘general will.’ – Ben Lopatin

2006-04-27T17:22:00.000-04:00

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it. – Voltaire

2006-04-26T18:12:00.000-04:00

Stoop and you’ll be stepped on; stand tall and you’ll be shot at. – Carlos A. Urbizo

2006-04-25T19:10:00.000-04:00

I may sink, but I’m damned if I’ll strike. – John Paul Jones, during naval battle with the HMS Serapis

2006-04-24T17:18:00.000-04:00

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. – Sir Winston Churchill

2006-04-21T17:35:00.000-04:00

Men are nicotine soaked, beer-besmirched, whisky greased, red-eyed devils. – Carrie Nation (1846-1911) of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

2006-04-20T17:47:00.000-04:00

This guy was a gentleman and an aviator. That’s the top of the line. There’s pilots, there’s drivers. An aviator is something else. That’s the best I can say about anyone in this business. – Test pilot Fred Griffith, on (recently deceased) test pilot Scott Crossfield.

2006-04-19T21:36:00.000-04:00

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. – Malcolm Muggeridge

2006-04-18T17:25:00.000-04:00

I have noticed that everyone who ever told me that the markets are efficient is poor. – Larry Hite

2006-04-17T18:42:00.000-04:00

Well I’m sorry for that. I can make new Brigadier Generals, but I can’t make horses. – Abraham Lincoln, upon hearing that Confederate partisan John S. Mosby had captured three Union officers and dozens of horses in a raid on the Fairfax Courthouse.

2006-04-14T15:31:00.000-04:00

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination. – Ronald Reagan

2006-04-13T17:47:00.000-04:00

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving. – Henry Youngman

2006-04-12T17:09:00.000-04:00

The happiness and prosperity of our citizens… is the only legitimate object of government and the first duty of governors. – Thomas Jefferson

2006-04-11T17:10:00.000-04:00

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It’s growth - mental, financial, you name it. – Harold S. Geneen

2006-04-10T17:05:00.000-04:00

Early in life I had three ambitions. I wanted to be the greatest economist in the world, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the best lover in Vienna. Well, I never became the greatest horseman in Austria. – Joseph A. Schumpeter

2006-04-07T16:54:00.000-04:00

Now is no time to be making new enemies. – Voltaire, last words, when asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce Satan.

2006-04-06T17:22:00.000-04:00

I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible. – Milton Friedman

2006-04-05T18:54:00.000-04:00

Red meat and a bottle of gin. – Julia Child, when asked by an interviewer what her ultimate meal would be.

2006-04-04T17:18:00.000-04:00

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. – George Bernard Shaw

2006-04-03T17:41:00.000-04:00

You’re going to ask me if I read the book. Little print, no pictures. Go ahead. – President Bush, when asked by a Freedom House official about their group’s annual report, “Freedom in the World,” during a press conference

2006-03-31T17:01:00.000-05:00

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. – Henry Youngman

2006-03-30T17:42:00.000-05:00

What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet. – Richard Branson

2006-03-29T17:41:00.000-05:00

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. – William Blake

2006-03-28T18:10:00.000-05:00

As is our confidence, so is our capacity. – William Hazlitt

2006-03-27T17:35:00.000-05:00

It’s going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. – Kin Hubbard

2006-03-23T15:15:00.000-05:00

The dead-tree boys must be shaking in their boots. We now have the money we need to complete our vision of crushing the old-line media behemoths. – TheStreet.com co-founder Jim Cramer, in a May 1998 press release

2006-03-22T15:14:00.000-05:00

I am just going outside and may be some time. – Captain Lawrence Oates, British explorer of the Antarctic, last words

2006-03-21T17:26:00.000-05:00

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions. – Anais Nin

2006-03-20T17:59:00.000-05:00

I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants. – A. Whitney Brown

2006-03-17T17:44:00.000-05:00

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat. – Alex Levin

2006-03-16T17:38:00.000-05:00

It bothers me and I ignore it. They’re not McMansions, they’re mansions. The “Mc” is a prefix put there by those who haven’t got one. – Toll Brothers CEO Robert Toll

2006-03-15T17:11:00.000-05:00

A girl phoned me the other day and said “Come on over, there’s nobody home.” I went over. Nobody was home. – Rodney Dangerfield

2006-03-14T17:31:00.000-05:00

The public be damned. – William Henry Vanderbilt, when asked by a reporter whether railroads should be run for the public benefit.

2006-03-13T17:15:00.000-05:00

Diversification is a hedge for ignorance. – William J. O’Neil

2006-03-10T18:06:00.000-05:00

If you were my husband, I’d put arsenic in your coffee. – Lady Astor to Winston Churchill

If you were my wife, I would drink it. – His reply

2006-03-09T17:31:00.000-05:00

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. – Rene Descartes

2006-03-08T17:53:00.000-05:00

F**k you. Strong letter to follow. – Doug Thompson, publisher of Capitol Hill Blue, responding to one of the FBI’s National Security Letters demanding traffic data, payment records, and other Web site info along with personal information on him. (Asterisks not in original.)

2006-03-07T16:51:00.000-05:00

This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table. – President Bush, February 25, 2005

2006-03-06T19:55:00.000-05:00

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. – George Bernard Shaw

2006-03-03T17:38:00.000-05:00

If God had wanted us to filter our beer, he wouldn’t have given us livers. – Larry Bell

2006-03-02T17:28:00.000-05:00

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. – Horace

2006-03-01T17:51:00.000-05:00

My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. – Henry Youngman

2006-02-28T17:38:00.000-05:00

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. – Latin Proverb

2006-02-27T17:58:00.000-05:00

Live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.
– Josh Billings

2006-02-24T18:26:00.000-05:00

Charlie McCarthy: “Say, Mr. Fields, I read in the paper where you consumed two quarts of liquor a day. What would your father think about that?”

W.C. Fields: “He’d think I was a sissy.”

2006-02-23T17:40:00.000-05:00

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire

2006-02-22T17:25:00.000-05:00

I know you’ve come to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. – Ernesto “Che” Guevara, last words

2006-02-21T17:08:00.000-05:00

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming. – Richard Branson

2006-02-20T20:19:00.000-05:00

You lose. – President Calvin Coolidge, to a dinner guest who told him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him.

2006-02-17T17:19:00.000-05:00

Ah, Monday morning. Time to pay for your two days of debauchery, you hungover drones. – Mr. Burns, The Simpsons

2006-02-16T17:36:00.000-05:00

I saw a billboard for the lottery. It said, “Estimated lottery jackpot 55 million dollars.” I did not know that was estimated. That would suck if you won and they said, “Oh, we were off by two zeroes. We estimate that you are angry!” – Mitch Hedberg

2006-02-15T18:27:00.000-05:00

Youth is a period of missed opportunities. – Cyril Connolly

2006-02-14T16:51:00.000-05:00

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
– Matt Groening, Love is Hell

2006-02-13T09:01:00.000-05:00

The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra

2006-02-10T17:36:00.000-05:00

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. – Sir Winston Churchill

2006-02-09T18:43:00.000-05:00

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde

2006-02-08T17:10:00.000-05:00

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

2006-02-07T17:30:00.000-05:00

If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. – Laurence J. Peter

2006-02-06T18:40:00.000-05:00

Below 20, boys are too rash for flying; above 25, they are too prudent. – W.J. Abbot

2006-02-03T16:52:00.000-05:00

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. – Jawaharlal Nehru

2006-02-02T17:05:00.000-05:00

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. – Sir Winston Churchill

2006-02-01T11:24:00.000-05:00

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. - Robert Frost

2006-01-31T18:34:00.000-05:00

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. - Warren Buffett

2006-01-30T18:36:00.000-05:00

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist

2006-01-27T11:39:00.000-05:00

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. – Bill Vaughn

2006-01-26T11:40:00.000-05:00

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

2006-01-25T11:42:00.000-05:00

The idea that a citizen’s property can be taken by the government solely for private use is extremely misguided, in fact it’s just plain wrong. One of the most basic rights of every citizen is to keep what they own. As an institution dedicated to helping our clients achieve economic success and financial security, we won’t help any entity or company that would undermine that mission and threaten the hard-earned American dream of property ownership. – BB&T Chairman and CEO John Allison, in a press release issued today announcing the bank would not lend to developers that plan to build on land taken from private citizens using eminent domain.

2006-01-24T11:44:00.000-05:00

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. – Garrison Keillor