Quote of the Day by John J Sullivan (602) 989-0099

Umberto Eco

2012-02-13T01:47:00.000-07:00

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

Benedict Spinoza

2012-02-12T02:19:00.000-07:00

Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts. Everyone has as much right as he has might.
- Benedict Spinoza

Miller McCune

2012-02-11T01:56:00.000-07:00

Handwriting is dying because it's a slow and inefficient way of getting our thoughts out -- a hindrance to thinking, given the alternatives.
- Miller McCune

H. L. Mencken

2012-02-10T02:03:00.000-07:00

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken

Price Pritchett

2012-02-09T01:54:00.000-07:00

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
- Price Pritchett

Edward W. Howe

2012-02-08T01:04:00.000-07:00

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe

Ambrose Bierce

2012-02-07T02:51:00.000-07:00

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
- Ambrose Bierce

Fred R. Barnard

2012-02-06T01:50:00.000-07:00

One picture is worth a thousand words.
- Fred R. Barnard

Robert Orben

2012-02-05T02:27:00.000-07:00

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
- Robert Orben

George Bernard Shaw

2012-02-04T01:04:00.000-07:00

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Oscar Wilde

2012-02-03T02:25:00.000-07:00

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

2012-02-02T01:24:00.000-07:00

"This is the short and the long of it."
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. (1564-1616)

Mark Twain

2012-02-01T01:22:00.000-07:00

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
- Mark Twain

S.A. Sachs

2012-01-31T02:04:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday.
- S.A. Sachs

Carolyn Wells

2012-01-30T02:14:00.000-07:00

"Actions lie louder than words."
- Carolyn Wells

Albert Camus

2012-01-29T01:28:00.000-07:00

"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
- Albert Camus

Bruce Grocott

2012-01-28T01:14:00.000-07:00

"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

Lewis Carroll

2012-01-27T01:13:00.000-07:00

If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carroll

Hobart Brown

2012-01-26T02:14:00.000-07:00

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
- Hobart Brown

Christopher Morley

2012-01-25T02:11:00.000-07:00

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
- Christopher Morley

Oscar Levant

2012-01-24T03:10:00.000-07:00

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.
- Oscar Levant

John Heywood

2012-01-23T01:23:00.000-07:00

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
- John Heywood

Dave Barry

2012-01-22T02:08:00.000-07:00

If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should, you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
- Dave Barry

Rodney Dangerfield

2012-01-21T01:43:00.000-07:00

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Josh Billings

2012-01-20T03:43:00.000-07:00

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.
- Josh Billings

Bill Cosby

2012-01-19T01:27:00.000-07:00

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
- Bill Cosby

James Madison

2012-01-18T01:41:00.000-07:00

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.
- James Madison

Aristotle

2012-01-17T01:40:00.000-07:00

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle

Wilson Mizner

2012-01-16T02:39:00.000-07:00

"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
- Wilson Mizner

Mae West

2012-01-15T02:09:00.000-07:00

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West

Ambrose Bierce

2012-01-14T01:37:00.000-07:00

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce

Fred Allen

2012-01-13T01:37:00.000-07:00

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen

H. L. Mencken

2012-01-12T03:36:00.000-07:00

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- H. L. Mencken

Robert Orben

2012-01-11T02:52:00.000-07:00

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
- Robert Orben

Will Rogers

2012-01-10T01:12:00.000-07:00

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
- Will Rogers

Confucius

2012-01-09T02:50:00.000-07:00

Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius

Tao Te Ching

2012-01-08T01:13:00.000-07:00

Those whose desires are few get them, those whose desires are great go astray.
- Tao Te Ching

Winston Churchill

2012-01-07T01:48:00.000-07:00

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill

George Carlin

2012-01-06T02:47:00.000-07:00

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
- George Carlin

Plato

2012-01-05T01:46:00.000-07:00

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato

Buddha

2012-01-04T01:29:00.000-07:00

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Buddha

Oscar Wilde

2012-01-03T02:44:00.000-07:00

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

George Bernard Shaw

2012-01-02T06:32:00.000-07:00

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

2012-01-01T03:30:00.000-07:00

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
- Mark Twain

Lily Tomlin

2011-12-31T01:29:00.000-07:00

"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them."
- Lily Tomlin

Frank Lloyd Wright

2011-12-30T02:28:00.000-07:00

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Fran Lebowitz

2011-12-29T01:56:00.000-07:00

"I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota."
- Fran Lebowitz

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

2011-12-28T02:16:00.000-07:00

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

John Ruskin

2011-12-27T01:54:00.000-07:00

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
- John Ruskin

Konstantin Stanislavisky

2011-12-26T01:34:00.000-07:00

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
- Konstantin Stanislavisky

Charles Horton Cooley

2011-12-25T02:09:00.000-07:00

The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
- Charles Horton Cooley

Elizabeth Bowen

2011-12-24T01:52:00.000-07:00

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Lyndon Johnson

2011-12-23T01:34:00.000-07:00

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
- Lyndon Johnson

Wayne Pearson

2011-12-22T01:50:00.000-07:00

This is my first drink today ... and that other one I had earlier ... that was my first drink today too.
- Wayne Pearson

Zsa Zsa Gabor

2011-12-21T02:28:00.000-07:00

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Ludwig Borne

2011-12-20T01:48:00.000-07:00

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Borne

Marya Mannes

2011-12-19T02:17:00.000-07:00

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
- Marya Mannes

H. L. Mencken

2011-12-18T03:46:00.000-07:00

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
- H. L. Mencken

Yogi Berra

2011-12-17T01:45:00.000-07:00

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
- Yogi Berra

Laurence J. Peter

2011-12-16T02:04:00.000-07:00

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Laurence J. Peter

P. J. O'Rourke

2011-12-15T01:44:00.000-07:00

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Lou Holtz

2011-12-14T02:43:00.000-07:00

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
- Lou Holtz

Ambrose Bierce

2011-12-13T02:02:00.000-07:00

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce

Robert Orben

2011-12-12T01:41:00.000-07:00

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
- Robert Orben

George Carlin

2011-12-11T02:35:00.000-07:00

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
- George Carlin

Plato

2011-12-10T03:11:00.000-07:00

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
- Plato

Tao Te Ching

2011-12-09T01:29:00.000-07:00

I am different from ordinary people. I nurse from the Great Mother's breasts.
- Tao Te Ching

Confucius

2011-12-08T02:45:00.000-07:00

If we don't know life, how can we know death?
- Confucius

Buddha

2011-12-07T03:08:00.000-07:00

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- Buddha

Woody Allen

2011-12-06T01:58:00.000-07:00

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
- Woody Allen

Albert Einstein

2011-12-05T01:17:00.000-07:00

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein

Ellen Degeneres

2011-12-04T03:05:00.000-07:00

I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I'm just like "shut up, shut up, shut up...blah blah blah blah blaaaaah."
- Ellen Degeneres

Winston Churchill

2011-12-03T01:37:00.000-07:00

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

George Bernard Shaw

2011-12-02T03:20:00.000-07:00

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

2011-12-01T02:13:00.000-07:00

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.
- Mark Twain

John Kenneth Galbraith

2011-11-30T01:18:00.000-07:00

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Ambrose Bierce

2011-11-29T03:18:00.000-07:00

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Ambrose Bierce

Mahatma Gandhi

2011-11-28T03:14:00.000-07:00

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Jean-Luc Godard

2011-11-27T02:56:00.000-07:00

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Jean-Luc Godard

Samuel Johnson

2011-11-26T01:23:00.000-07:00

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
- Samuel Johnson

Earl Nightingale

2011-11-25T02:55:00.000-07:00

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
- Earl Nightingale

Chester Alan Arthur

2011-11-24T03:14:00.000-07:00

Good ballplayers make good citizens.
- Chester Alan Arthur

John F. Kennedy

2011-11-23T02:53:00.000-07:00

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war - and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.
- John F. Kennedy

Simone de Beauvoir

2011-11-22T01:42:00.000-07:00

One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.
- Simone de Beauvoir

E. M. Cioran

2011-11-21T02:52:00.000-07:00

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
- E. M. Cioran

Dan O'Brien

2011-11-20T03:02:00.000-07:00

The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that.
- Dan O'Brien

Minnie Fiske

2011-11-19T01:22:00.000-07:00

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
- Minnie Fiske

Friedrich Nietzsche

2011-11-18T02:49:00.000-07:00

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Pablo Picasso

2011-11-17T03:01:00.000-07:00

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
- Pablo Picasso

Dwight D. Eisenhower

2011-11-16T02:48:00.000-07:00

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ezra Pound

2011-11-15T01:14:00.000-07:00

AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
- Ezra Pound

Lord Byron

2011-11-14T02:46:00.000-07:00

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
- Lord Byron

Niccolo Machiavelli

2011-11-13T03:01:00.000-07:00

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Will Rogers

2011-11-12T02:02:00.000-07:00

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
- Will Rogers

Eric Hoffer

2011-11-11T01:18:00.000-07:00

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- Eric Hoffer

H. L. Mencken

2011-11-10T02:43:00.000-07:00

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
- H. L. Mencken

Robert Orben

2011-11-09T02:42:00.000-07:00

Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'
- Robert Orben

Abraham Lincoln

2011-11-08T01:25:00.000-07:00

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Winston Churchill

2011-11-07T01:40:00.000-07:00

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill

Confucius

2011-11-06T01:39:00.000-07:00

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius