Quote of the Day

Where are those happy days, they seem so hard to find?
I tried to reach for you, but you have closed your mind.
Whatever happened to our love?
I wish I understood.
It used to be so nice, it used to be so good.

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me?
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me.
S. O. S.
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?

You seem so far away though you are standing near.
You made me feel alive, but something died I fear.
I really tried to make it out.
I wish I understood.
What happened to our love, it used to be so good?

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me
S. O. S.
The love you gave me, nothing else can save me
S. O. S.
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me?
S. O. S.
And the love you gave me, nothing else can save me.
S. O. S.
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?
When you're gone,
How can I even try to go on?
When you're gone,
Though I try how can I carry on?

- ABBA

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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle Onassis

"I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star." -Natalie Portman

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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-Jean-Paul Sartre

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature,
but don't lend it to your neighbors.

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If history were taught in the form of stories,
it would never be forgotten.

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Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful,"
and sitting in the shade.

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If you don't get what you want,
it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it,
or that you tried to bargain over the price.

~ Rudyard Kipling ~
Born 30 Dec 1865

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But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

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

All from the mind of Friedrich Nietzsche.

"She defaced my fly, and I've never been the same since."

"They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show, and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV."

- Mike Judge

"Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. " ~John Selden

"Happy New Years to all you Mofo's" -Me

"...man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of purpose...'

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"Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

- Oscar Wilde

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection. - Farrah Gray

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. - Anon

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" -Seneca

“I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second." - Helen Fieldings

"Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee."

"Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult."

"Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home."

- David Frost

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
- John F. Kennedy


“Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.” - Conan O'Brien

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.


Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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Comment is free but facts are sacred

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything will appear to man as it is, infinite."

Love the quote... but would also like to know who said it...

It's from a William Blake poem, but I can't remember off hand whether it's from "Songs Of Innocence" or "Songs Of Experience."