Quote(s) of the Day
One day a friend of mine sent me an email entitled 'Quote of the Day'

It was pretty funny so I saved it. The next day I got another one. And the next day another. Before long I was getting a new 'Quote of the Day' almost every day.

That was over a year ago. There have been dry spells: days, even weeks where no quote of the day was received, and there have been days when I've gotten two or three in a single day.

I've kept them all.

Here they are in no particular order. I can't wait 'til tomorrow

Technology is dominated by two types of people Those who understand what they do not manageand those who manage what they do not understand

Source Unknown

Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy

Guillaume Apollinaire

Normal is not something to aspire to Its something to get away from

Jodie Foster

I never approve or disapprove of anything now It is an absurd attitude to take towards life We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices I never take any notice of what common people say and I never interfere with what charming people do

Oscar Wilde

Maybe this world is another planets hell

Aldous Huxley

I sometimes go to my own little world but thats okay they know me there

Joel Hodgson

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable There is another theory which states that this has already happened

Douglas Adams

Black holes are where God divided by zero

Steven Wright

Logic like whiskey loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities

Lord Dunsany

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights so it looks like Im the only one moving

Steven Wright

I wanna live til I die no more no less

Eddie Izzard

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because its unfamiliar territory

Paul Fix

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you dont mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isnt half so bad if it isnt you

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Youre not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on

Joe E Lewis

Its not true that I had nothing on I had the radio on

Marilyn Monroe

Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing

Grace Slick

My mother said to me If you are a soldier you will become a general If you are a monk you will become the Pope Instead I was a painter and became Picasso

Pablo Picasso

They say the sun shines for all But in some people world it never shines at all They say love is a stream that will find its course Some people think life is a dreamSo they making matters worse

Bob Marley

Paradise is exactly like where you are right nowonly much much better

Laurie Anderson

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame I craved factual certainty and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life so I became a scientist This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls

M Cartmill

We are here on Earth to do good to others What the others are here for I dont know

W H Auden

Someday I want to be rich Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity Thats how rich I want to be

Rita Rudner

Insanity in individuals is something rare but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule

Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything you can imagine is real

Pablo Picasso

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land They said Let us pray We closed our eyes When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land

Bishop Desmond Tutu

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you dont need it

Bob Hope

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings

Ed Gardner

If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice

Rush

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it

Thomas Jefferson 1791

The shortest distance between two points is under construction

Noelie Altito

Things are only impossible until theyre not

JeanLuc Picard Star Trek The Next Generation

Everyone has it within his power to say This I am today that I will be tomorrow

Louis LAmour

Dr Zens Theory of the Good Crazies and the Bad Crazies The good crazies act crazy and therefore never go insane The bad crazies try not to act crazy and therefore drive themselves insane trying not to act crazy

Dan Hahn

The horror The horror

Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind

Mahatma Gandhi

I am not sure how WW III will end but I know for a fact that WW IV will be fought with sticks and stones

Albert Einstein

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied

Otto Von Bismark

Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it

Andre Gide

There is no blinking at the fact that our people our territory and our interests are in grave danger With confidence in our armed forceswith the unbounding determination of our peoplewe will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God

Franklin D Roosevelt December 8 1941

If children ran the goverment we would be going to amusement parks and not war

Wavey Gravey

I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality

Salvador Dali

All things dull and ugly all creatures short and squat all things rude and nasty the lord god made the lot

Monty Python

The answer to lifes problems arent at the bottom of a beer bottle theyre on TV

Homer Simpson

The time to relax is when you dont have time for it

Sidney J Harris

The Beatles saved the world from boredom

George Harrison 1943 2001

The good thing about them is that you can look at them with the sound turned down You know what irritates me about modern music its all based on ego Look at a group like U2 Bono and his band are so egocentric the more you jump around the bigger your hat is the more people listen to your music The only important thing is to sell and make money Its nothing to do with talent Today there are groups who sell lots of records and then disappear Will we remember U2 in 30 years Or the Spice Girls I doubt it

George Harrison on modern music U2 and The Spice Girls

There are some people that if they dont know you cant tell them

Louis Armstrong

You are only young once and if you work it right once is enough

Joe E Lewis

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life Dont let them scare you unduly for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity

R I Fitzhenry

How come fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing

Ziggy

The human body is a peculiar device pat it on the back and the head swells

Source Unknown

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing it is the person crushed who feels what is happening Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed to feel with them one cannot understand

Simone Weil

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you You do not change peoples minds

Frank Zappa

The medias the most powerful entity on earth They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent and thats power Because they control the minds of the masses

Malcom X

People say Im extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty But tell me who wants to be surrounded by garbage

Imelda Marcos onetime Philippine first lady and owner of 3000 pairs of shoes

The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggsandham breakfast The chicken was involved the pig was committed

unknown

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it than to be sane and have ones doubts

G B Burgin

Love is a fire But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house you can never tell

Anonymous

Everything is okay in the end If its not okay then its not the end

Ozzy Osbourne

Every weekend is a great weekend

Min Whyman

I am giving you the right answers Youre just asking the wrong questions

Dennis the Menance

I am a marvelous housekeeper Every time I leave a man I keep his house

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Weve begun to long for the pitter patter of little feet so we bought a dog Well its cheaper and you get more feet

Rita Rudner

Although I can accept talking scarecrows lions and great wizards in emerald cities I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch

Dave James

College is spending 100 for a book and 3000 to prove you read it

Unknown

I hate flowers I only paint them because theyre cheaper than models and they dont move

Georgia OKeefe

You know your children have grown up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they are going

Unknown

When your wife says What do you think she is not asking for YOUR opinion She is asking for HER opinion from your mouth

Unknown

Every book has a happy ending as long as its not necessary to read the rest of the story

unknown

The reason we start a war is to fight a war win a war thereby causing no more war

George W Bush The first Presidential debate

True we love life not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving There is always some madness in love but there is also always some reason in madness

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wellbehaved women rarely make history

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck

Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Technically Windows is an operating system which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly with no warning whatsoever stop operating

Dave Barry

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex there is an important lesson to be learned Do not have sex with the authorities

From Basic Sex Facts For Todays Youngfolk in Life In Hell by Matt Groening

I believe in compulsory cannibalism If people were forced to eat what they killed there would be no more wars

Abbie Hoffman

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

Salvor Hardin

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel

Ernesto Che Guevara

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed and are right

HL Mencken

19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society

Rocco Galeti

Nobody Freaks like me

Dennis Hooper

Art begins with resistance at the point where resistance is overcome No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor

Andre Gide

He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot

Anon

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel

Ernesto Che Guevara

If you want to imagine the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever

George Orwell 1984

When you finally understand the universe it will not only be stranger than you imagine it will be stranger than you can imagine

Arthur C Clarke

You can pretend to be serious you cant pretend to be witty

Sacha Guitry

For every feared thing there is an opposing hope that encourages us

Umberto Ecco

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemys resistance without fighting

Sun Tzu

Its never too late to have a happy childhood

unknown

Never complain about growing old because so many never get the chance

Author Unknown

If its natural to kill how come men have to go into training to learn how

Joan Baez

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me This is going to take more than one night

Charlie Brown

Christmas children is not a date It is a state of mind

Mary Ellen Chase

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as its profitable to continue the illusion At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain they will just take down the scenery they will pull back the curtains they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre

Frank Zappa

The what should be never did exist but people keep trying to live up to it There is no what should be there is only what is

Lenny Bruce

Marriage is not a wordITS A SENTENCE

Anon

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it will but grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way

Emily Zola

I always seem to come in on the end of things Dar sighed And the beginning Sams face lit with a rare dazzling smile Thats what comes after the end you know

Dar and Sam Escape Velocity

Life was a remarkably common commodity Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some in the same way that anything massive enough got a generous helping of gravity The universe had a definite tendency toward awareness This suggested a certain subtle cruelty woven into the very fabric of spacetime

Soul Music

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea

John Nuveen

Tell a person there are 400 billion stars in the sky and theyll believe you but tell them a bench is covered in wet paint and they has to touch it

Jeanne

Democrats were quick to point out that President Bushs budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit The White House quickly responded with Hey look over there its Saddam Hussein

Craig Kilborn

Perhaps the Internet as a very young child needs the interventions of a saint all the more

James P Moroney an expert on parayer and worship for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on Italian Roman Catholics launching a search for a patron saint of the Internet

Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordian

Donald Rumsfeld US Secretary of Defense

Women need a reason to have sex Men just need a place

Billy Crystal

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful natural wholesome things that money can buy

Tom Clancy

You know that look women get when they want sex Me neither

Steve Martin

Having sex is like playing bridge If you dont have a good partner youd better have a good hand

Woody Allen

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night

Rodney Dangerfield

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women Chief among these is the MercedesBenz 500SL

Lynn Lavner

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation The other eight are unimportant

George Burns

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope

Camille Paglia

Women might be able to fake orgasms But men can fake whole relationships

Sharon Stone

My girlfriend always laughs during sex no matter what shes reading

Steve Jobs founder Apple Computers

According to a new survey women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women They say that women are too judgemental where of course men are just grateful

Robert De Niro

Theres very little advice in mens magazines because men think I know what Im doing just show me somebody naked

Jerry Seinfeld

See the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time

Robin Williams

Do not wait for the last judgment It takes place every day

Albert Camus

We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body but we starve the soul

Ellen Wood

Nobody knows the age of the human race but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better

Anon

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained

Abraham Lincoln

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist but a possibilist

Max Lerner

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness

Aristotle

Does gods light guide us or blind us

unknown

And the Lord spake saying First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin Then shalt thou count to three No more No less Three shalt be the number thou shalt count and the number of the counting shall be three Four shalt thou not count nor either count thou two excepting that thou then proceed to three Five is right out Once the number three being the third number be reached then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe who being naughty in My sight shall snuff it

Monty Pythons Holy Grail

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks

Anonymous On the wall of a restroom

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another

Madonna

The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware

Henry Miller

Never hold your farts in They travel up your spine into your brainand thats when you get shitty ideas

Unknown

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22 it would have changed the history of musicand of aviation

Tom Stoppard

Youth is a wonderful thing What a crime to waste it on children

George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask Where have I gone wrong Then a voice says to me This is going to take more than one night

Charlie Brown

You can complain because roses have thorns or you can rejoice because thorns have roses

Tom Wilson

Given a choice between two theories take the one which is funnier

Blores Razor

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez Small sweet and coming out of a funny plastic head

Dennis Miller

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous

Ingrid Bergman

The truth is always a compound of two halftruths and you never reach it because there is always something more to say

Tom Stoppard

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman

Arnold Schwarzenegger made to a radio interviewer

I seek the truth and I tell the truth

Baba

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous the sensible man hardly anything

Goethe

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them

E V Lucas

We dont stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing

George Bernard Shaw

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories those that dont work those that break down and those that get lost

Russel Baker

Never say OOPS always say Ah Interesting

Anon

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe

Ray Bradbury

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation

Saki

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable

Sidney Harris

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer a RollsRoyce would today cost 100 get a million miles per gallon and explode once a year killing everyone inside

Robert X Cringely InfoWorld magazine

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

Aristotle

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is

PJ Rourke

Everybody believes in something and everybody by virtue of the fact that they believe in something use that something to support their own existence

Frank Zappa

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame I craved factual certainty and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life so I became a scientist This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls

M Cartmill

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision

Blake Clark

Correct me if Im wrong but hasnt the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

George Price

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings

Ed Gardner

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible

George Burns

To achieve the impossible dream try going to sleep

Joan Klempner

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon but that we wait so long to begin it

Anonymous

Its time for the human race to enter the solar system

Dan Quayle

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious

Brendan Gill

If you havent found something strange during the day it hasnt been much of a day

John A Wheeler

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children

Calvin and Hobbes

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

Napoleon Bonaparte

Only enemies speak the truth Friends and lovers lie endlessly caught in the web of duty

Stephen King

I wonder how many times a flood of lies have been used to discredit one truth

Duane Alan Hahn

If you dont know where you are going you will probably end up somewhere else

Laurence J Peter

Its amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always just exactly fits the newspaper

Jerry Seinfeld

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse I suspect people of plotting to make me happy

J D Salinger

You can tell a lot about a fellows character by his way of eating jellybeans

Ronald Reagan

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments You cannot create experience You must undergo it

Albert Camus

I wont come out you must come in to me Into my wombgarden where I peer out Where I can construct a universe within the skull to rival the real

Jim Morrison

The future according to some scientists will be exactly like the past only far more expensive

John Sladek

The meek shall inherit the Earth but not its mineral rights

J Paul Getty

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem

W Somerset Maugham

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics

Fletcher Knebel

The best way to predict the future is to invent it

Alan Kay

It is not just a writers crisis but they are the most obvious victims because the function of art is supposedly to bring order out of chaos a tall order even when the chaos is static and a superhuman task when chaos is multiplyingSo finally and for what he must have thought the best of reasons he ended it with a shotgun

Hunter Thompson reflecting on Hemignways death after visiting his grave in Ketchum Idaho in 1964

Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are

Bertolt Brecht

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

Everyone is entitled to be stupid but some abuse the privilege

Unknown

If computers get too powerful we can organize them into a committee that will do them in

Bradleys Bromide

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards

Arthur Koestler

On a personal level Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standars of thinking dress and social etiquette in order to express creatively his relationship to his immediate environment and the social structure as a whole

Frank Zappa

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work ask him Whose

Don Marquis 1878 1937

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable There is another theory which states that this has already happened

Douglas Adams

Confusion is always the most honest response

Marty Indik

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know

Cullen Hightower

Thats the secret to lifereplace one worry with another

Charles M Schulz

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality

Jules de Gaultier

The thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next

Ursula LeGuin

The Republicans stand for raw unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons

Frank Zappa

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink I feel shame Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams If I didnt drink this wine they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered Then I say to myself It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver

Jack Handy

Wexelblats Scheduling Algorithm Choose two Good Fast Cheap

Wexelblat

My life is just a series of events between poops

Unknown

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it

Ellen Goodman

Friends dont let friends take home ugly men

Womens restroom Starboard Dewey Beach DE

Remember its not How high are you its Hi how are you

Rest stop off Route 81 West Virginia

No matter how good she looks some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap

Mens Room Lindas Bar and Grill Chapel Hill North Carolina

Make love not war Hell do both get married

Womens restroom The Filling Station Bozeman Montana

Womans Rule of Thumb If it has tires or testicles youre going to have trouble with it

Womens restroom Dicks Last Resort Dallas Texas

Express Lane Five beers or less

Sign over one of the urinals Ed Debevics Beverly Hills CA

No wonder you always go home alone

Sign over mirror in Mens restroom Ed Debevics Beverly Hills CA

The best way to a mans heart is to saw his breast plate open

Womens restroom Murphys Champaign IL

Beauty is only a light switch away

Perkins Library Duke University Durham North Carolina

If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life then lets all get wasted together and have the time of our lives

Armands Pizza Washington DC

God made pot Man made beer Who do you trust

The Irish Times Washington DC

Its hard to make a comeback when you havent been anywhere

Written in the dust on the back of a bus Flagstaff Arizona

If voting could really change things it would be illegal

Revolution Books New York New York

Dont trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesnt die

Mens restroom Murphys Champaign IL

What are you looking up on the wall for The joke is in your hands

Mens restroom Lexington KY

Please dont throw your cigarette butts in the urinal It makes them soggy and hard to light

The Janitor

Target is like a WalMart just for more upscale hillbillies

Chris McVetta The Id and I

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself Lillian you should have remained a virgin

Lillian Carter mother of 39th president Jimmy Carter

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog No good in a bed but fine against a wall

Eleanor Roosevelt

Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement

Mark Twain

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as close together as possible

George Burns

Santa Claus has the right idea Visit people only once a year

Victor Borge

Be careful about reading health books You may die of a misprint

Mark Twain

What would men be without women Scarce sirmighty scarce

Mark Twain

By all means marry If you get a good wife youll become happy if you get a bad one youll become a philosopher

Socrates

I was married by a judge I should have asked for a jury

Groucho Marx

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech Every now and then she stops to breathe

Jimmy Durante

The male is a domestic animal which if treated with firmness and kindness can be trained to do most things

Jilly Cooper

I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups alcohol caffeine sugar and fat

Alex Levine

Dont go around saying the world owes you a living The world owes you nothing It was here first

Mark Twain

My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery people would stop dying

Ed Furgol

Money cant buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery

Spike Milligan

Whats the use of happiness It cant buy you money

Henny Youngman

I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position

Mark Twain

Until I was thirteen I thought my name was shut up

Joe Namath

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life

Herbert Henry Asquith

I dont feel old I dont feel anything until noon Then its time for my nap

Bob Hope

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it

WC Fields

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress

Will Rogers

Dont worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older it will avoid you

Winston Churchill

Maybe its true that life begins at fifty but everything else starts to wear out fall out or spread out

Phyllis Diller

The cardiologists diet If it tastes good spit it out

Unknown

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step hes too old to go anywhere

Billy Crystal

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments

William E Borah

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed easy to get into but hard to get out of

Anonymous