Sunday, November 30, 2008

Quote of the Day

As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll.
-- Mick Shrimpton

Friday, November 28, 2008

Quote of the Day

I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!
-- Jack Handey

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Quote of the Day

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Quote of the Day

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Quote of the Day

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
-- Sir Francis Bacon

Monday, November 24, 2008

Quote of the Day

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
-- W. C. Fields

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Quote of the Day

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
-- Douglas Adams

Friday, November 21, 2008

Quote of the Day

When will I learn? The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!
-- Homer J. Simpson

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Quote of the Day

This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Quote of the Day

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
-- Johnny Carson

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Quote of the Day

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx

Monday, November 17, 2008

James A. Chappell

Quote of the Day

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
-- Sinclair Lewis

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Quote of the Day

If you don't live it, It won't come out of your horn.
-- Charlie Parker

Friday, November 14, 2008

Quote of the Day

Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Quote of the Day

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Quote of the Day

Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Quote of the Day

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

Monday, November 10, 2008

Quote of the Day

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

Sunday, November 09, 2008

Quote of the Day

Ned... have you thought about one of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same.
-- Reverend Timothy Lovejoy

Friday, November 07, 2008

Quote of the Day

Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and file directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Quote of the Day

Dear Mr. President: There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. P.S. I am not a crackpot.
-- Abraham Simpson

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Quote of the Day

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-- Albert Einstein

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Quote of the Day

Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.
-- David St. Hubbins

Monday, November 03, 2008

Quote of the Day

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
-- H.L. Mencken

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Quote of the Day

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.
-- Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Image