Quote for the day, Wednesday, December 31, 2008

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.


---Bill Vaughan

Quote for the day, Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.


---Emile Coue (1857 - 1926)

Quote for the day, Monday, December 29, 2008

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.


---Robert Jackson

Quote for the day, Sunday, December 28, 2008

Every mile is two in winter.


---George Herbert (1593 - 1633), Jacula Prudentum

Quote for the day, Saturday, December 27, 2008

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.


---Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)

Quote for the day, Friday, December 26, 2008

There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is.


---Matthew Oliphant, Useability Works, 03-22-2006

Quote for the day, Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.


---Washington Irving

Quote for the day, Wednesday, December 24, 2008

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.


---Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

Quote for the day, Tuesday, December 23, 2008

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.


---John Buchan (1875 - 1940)

Quote for the day, Monday, December 22, 2008

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.


---Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

Quote for the day, Sunday, December 21, 2008

One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.


---Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)

Quote for the day, Saturday, December 20, 2008

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.


---David Letterman (1947 - )

Quote for the day, Friday, December 19, 2008

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.


---Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

Quote for the day, Thursday, December 18, 2008

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.


---Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Quote for the day, Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.


---George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Quote for the day, Tuesday, December 16, 2008

I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.


---Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

Quote for the day, Monday, December 15, 2008

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.


---Stella Benson

Quote for the day, Sunday, December 14, 2008

My friend is one... who take[s] me for what I am.


---Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Quote for the day, Friday, December 12, 2008

Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.


---Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), The Courage to Be

Quote for the day, Thursday, December 11, 2008

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.


---Robertson Davies