Quote of the Day

He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.

 

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

 

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it. - Paul "Bear" Bryant

 

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Or punch one!

 

In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire, 1764

 

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill

I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.... -- James Madison

 

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons." – Al Hirschfeld

 

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories

 

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
-Geoffrey F. Fisher

 

Todays Mighty Oak was just a loose Nut which held its Ground.

 

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

 

Procrastinate now. Don't put it off.

 

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

 

You get what you do today

 

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

 

Definition of a Niche: "The ability to sit in a round room and find a corner."


- By: Surchin

 

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

 

No I believe that was Churchill, though he said it better.

 

Alcohol Kills Slowly......So what, who is in a hurry

 

I absolutely agree with Voltaire.