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

Quote for the day, Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.


---Jonathan Winters

Quote for the day, Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.


---Liberace (1919 - 1987)

Quote for the day, Monday, December 8, 2008

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.


---Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Quote for the day, Saturday, December 6, 2008

"We are all fortunate to have what we did have, Jack.The Things that we didn't have... those are lamentable, of course. But we can either dwell on them, regret them pointlessly... or learn from them and move on."


---Commander Jean-Luc Picard, Starship Enterprise. [Track A. Ch8. Star Trek, The Next Generation{Book} Q-Squared, by Peter David.]

Quote for the day, Thursday, December 4, 2008

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough"


---Mario Andretti (1940 - )

Quote for the day, Wednesday, December 3, 2008

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."


---John Ruskin

Quote for the day, Tuesday, December 2, 2008

"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.


---Marva Collins

Quote for the day, Monday, December 1, 2008

"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do."


---Benjamin Franklin

Quote for the day Sunday, November 30, 2008

"It's easy enough to be pleasant;
When life flows like a song,
But the man worthwhile,
Is the one who can smile,
When things go dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble
And it always comes with the years,
And the smile that is worth
The praises of earth,
Is the smile that shines through the tears."


---Ella Wilcox

Quote for the Day, Saturday, November 29, 2008

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere


---Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

Quote for the day Friday, November 28, 2008

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

---Epictetus

Quote for the day Thursday, November 27, 2008

"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."


---George Herbert 

Yes... i am starting it back up. as you can tell... but don't take it lightly, this is temporary. If i see it as not worth the effort again... i will stop it indefinatly

regarding Quote's for the day

Well... i dont know if y'all noticed... but i've stopped... it's not a whole lot of coding but there's enough of it to make it need something in return...

all i got in return for the coding and all that... was the occasional comment saying "this is my fav quote" or some bs like that. making it not worth doing. zero feedback... just made it pointless...

so don't get mad at me, get mad at yourselves

Quote for the day Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Why no quote today? Because, faith seems to escape me. and I dont know how to get it back.

Quote for the day Monday, November 10, 2008

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.


---G. K. Chesterton

Quote for the day Sunday, November 9, 2008

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time


---Abraham Lincoln

Quote for the day Saturday, November 8, 2008

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?


---Ernest Gaines

Quote for the day Friday, November 7, 2008

Live forever or die in the attempt.


---Joseph Heller, Catch 22

Quote for the day Thursday, November 6, 2008

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?


---Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

Quote for the day Wednesday, November 5, 2008

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.


---Joe E. Lewis

Quote for the day Tuesday, November 4, 2008

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.


---Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

Quote for the day Monday, November 3, 2008

He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend


---George Shelley

Quote for the day Sunday, November 2, 2008

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse


---Anne-Sophie Swetchine

Quote for the day Saturday, November 1, 2008

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.


---Samuel Goldwyn

Quote for the day Friday, October 31, 2008

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.


---Tom Hanks

Quote for the day Thursday, October 30, 2008

The reverse side also has a reverse side.


---Japanese Proverb

Quote for the day Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.


---David Reisman

Quote for the day Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.


---John Mitchell Mason

Quote for the day Monday, October 27, 2008

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.


---Seneca, 'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D

Quote for the day Sunday, October 26, 2008

sorry folks i fell behind on getting this done! there should be one for tomorrow though!

Quote for the day Saturday, October 25, 2008

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.


---G. K. Chesterton

Quote for the day Friday, October 24, 2008

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.


---Bruce Grocott

Quote for the day Thursday, October 23, 2008

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.


---Henny Youngman

Quote for the day Wednesday, October 22, 2008

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.


---Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105

Quote for the day Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.


---Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote for the day Monday, October 20, 2008

Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.


---Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

Quote for the day Sunday, October 19, 2008

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.


---Robin Norwood

Quote for the day Saturday, October 18, 2008

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.


---Lyndon B. Johnson, address to the nation, November 28, 1963

Quote for the day Saturday, October 18, 2008

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.


---Lyndon B. Johnson, address to the nation, November 28, 1963

Quote for the day Friday, October 17, 2008

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.


---Thomas Carlyle

Quote for the day Thursday, October 16, 2008

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?


---Walt Whitman

Quote for the day Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Live always in the best company when you read.


---Sydney Smith

Quote for the day Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.


---Ken Kesey

Quote for the day Monday, October 13, 2008

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.


---George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

Quote for the day Sunday, October 12, 2008

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.


---Tom Lehrer

Quote for the day Saturday, October 11, 2008

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.


---John Adams

Quote for the day Friday, October 10, 2008

"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

Quote for the day Thursday, October 9, 2008

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power


---Washington Irving

Quote for the day Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Assumptions are the termites of relationships


---Henry Winkler

Quote for the day Tuesday, October 7, 2008

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.


---Sir Francis Bacon

Quote for the day Monday, October 6, 2008

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart


---Saint Jerome

Quote for the day Sunday, October 5, 2008

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.


---Fred Allen

Quote for the day Saturday, October 4, 2008

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?


---Unknown

Quote for the day Friday, October 3, 2008

No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?


---Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000

Quote for the day Thursday, October 2, 2008

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.


---Kin Hubbard

Quote for the day Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.


---Audre Lorde

Quote for the day Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.


---Bob Edwards

Quote for the day Monday, September 29, 2008

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.


---Rodney Dangerfield

Quote for the day Sunday, September 28, 2008

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?


---George Carlin

Quote for the day Saturday, September 27, 2008

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys


---Gail Pool

Quote for the day Friday, September 26, 2008

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.


---Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

Quote for the day Thursday, September 25, 2008

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.


---Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought

Quote for the day Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.


---Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary

Quote for the day Tuesday, September 23, 2008

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's


---Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892

Quote for the day Monday, September 22, 2008

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.


---Peter Drucker

Quote for the day Sunday, September 21, 2008

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.


---Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000

Quote for the day Friday, September 19, 2008

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.


---Richard Lewis

Quote for the day Thursday, September 18, 2008

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.


---George Bernard Shaw

Quote for the day Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.


---Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"

Quote for the day Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.


---Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, October 2002

Quote for the day Monday, September 15, 2008

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.


---Liberace

Quote for the day Sunday, September 14, 2008

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.


---William Shakespeare, "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1

Quote for the day Saturday, September 13, 2008

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.


---J.G.C. Brainard

Quote for the day Friday, September 12, 2008

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.


---Thomas Jefferson

Quote for the day Thursday, September 11, 2008

See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.


---Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06

Quote for the day Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.


---Oscar Wilde

Quote for the day Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again


---Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"

What's up

I am going to use this one to post, a quote for each day. if something comes up or whatever i may not be able to. like if i can't get to my computer or something. but daily otherwise