Quote of the Day

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors." - Plato

“Words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.” -Hermann Hesse


"patriotism is a virtue of the vicious" -Oscar Wilde

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” ― Charles M. Schulz

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“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body. ~Cher


--just did my workout finally! lol

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
Joe Walsh

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

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5-time MoFo Award winner.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."

- Philip K. Dick

The past is a puzzle, like a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself, your image keeps shifting. And you change with it. It could destroy you, drive you mad. It could set you free.

"It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone."

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."

“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?”

― G.K. Chesterton

Neary’s conception of friendship was very curious. He expected it to last. He never said, when speaking of an enemy: “He used to be a friend of mine”, but always, with affected precision: “I used to think he was a friend of mine.”

Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1938)

They fail to realize that 99.9 per cent of people with a healthy diet will eventually die.

Mark E. Smith, Renegade (2008)

"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” -Aristotle

"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead." -Clausewitz

"The past lies like a nightmare upon the present." -Karl Marx

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” -Paul McCartney

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.
Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives"

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 (1941 - 2002)

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

Fish discover water last - Proverb

"The moral gravity of procured abortion is apparent in all its truth if we recognize that we are dealing with murder and, in particular, when we consider the specific elements involved. The one eliminated is a human being at the very beginning of life. No one more absolutely innocent could be imagined. In no way could this human being ever be considered an aggressor, much less an unjust aggressor! He or she is weak, defenceless, even to the point of lacking that minimal form of defence consisting in the poignant power of a newborn baby's cries and tears. The unborn child is totally entrusted to the protection and care of the woman carrying him or her in the womb. And yet sometimes it is precisely the mother herself who makes the decision and asks for the child to be eliminated, and who then goes about having it done."

~ Pope John Paul II

"There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there."

--- Patrick Bateman, American Psycho

“It seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke

We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
Carl von Clausewitz

"Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice."
Adolf Hitler

“More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected.”

― Ronald Reagan

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein