A Quote for Jim and Paul

...in the most superficial way possible...

"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast."
-Author Unknown

And here's one for yesterday and probably later today...

"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap."
-Carrie Snow

Quote for Any Day

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

-Albert Einstein

Loosen Up My Buttons...

'Tis a quote.

"Yeah, you know, boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons.

--Homer J. Simpson

So lay down your fave Simpsons quotes in the comments if you must. Or Pussycat Dolls song lyrics, I guess.

Also, a Presidential Quote

Sort of.

WWTDD posted pics of Obama on vacation and commented that he will be...

the only sitting President who could dance for tips if he had to

And, you know, I'm going to have to agree with that.

*Feeling Bad-A** Quote

"Death had to take him sleeping. For if [Theodore] Roosevelt had been awake, there would have been a fight."

--Thomas Marshall

Feeling Wilde

"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever." -Oscar Wilde

Tuesday's Quote

"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you."

-B.B. King

Quote of the Day

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever."

-Winnie the Pooh

Quote of the Day

"A Kiss that's never tasted Is forever and ever wasted."

-Billie Holiday

Quote of the Day Month?

"Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle."

-Crystal Middlemas

Monday's Quote

I lived near Peoria, Illinois when I was a young pup, and was therefore probably more familiar with Richard Pryor's work than I should have been at a young age. I'd say he'll be missed, but he's already been missed for some time.

"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."

-Richard Pryor

Friday's Quote

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success." -Oscar Wilde

Thursday's Quote

"Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter." -James Fenimore Cooper

Wednesday's Quote

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." -Samuel Johnston

Tuesday's Quote

"Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends." -Jacques Delille

Monday's Quote

"We will be friends until forever, just you wait and see."

-Pooh Bear

Quote of the Day

Without Googling, can you tell me what movie this comes from?

"This ain't a bridge--it's termites holding hands!"

First one to get it wins nothing but bragging rights.

Any Given Friday Quote

"I am beyond logic and rationality."

-Imelda Marcos

Thursday And So On Quote

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."

-Rabindranath Tagore

Wednesday After My Logic Test Quote

"But, logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities."

-Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

Tuesday Before My Logic Test Quote

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Monday Before My Logic Test Quote

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

-Albert Einstein

Thursday Quote

Hmm.

"Wherever Islam went, it did not destroy the local culture, but transformed it into an Islamic reality. What were rejected were elements of a clearly un-Islamic nature."

-Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Thursday Quote

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

*Wednesday Quote

"It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just."

-Judge Rose Elizabeth Bird

*Tuesday Quote

"Education is not preparation for life. Education is life itself."

-John Dewey

*Monday Quote

"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."

-Jean Giraudoux

Monday Quote

Found via the comments here*:

"Yes! Actually he’s extremely bright, in that academic geeky way where you monumentally miss the point about emotional relationships but since you are so extremely bright you think everyone else doesn’t get it but you."

-Yehudit

* I am heartily ashamed that I didn't think of posting this series first.

Tuesday's Quote

"He possessed all the disposition to deceive, but wanted the power."

-Frederick Douglass

Quote for a Wednesday, By Default

Just because this is Wednesday, you know. What am I explaining myself to you people for?

"The Promised Land is a spiritual land rather than a geographical one."

-Prof. Holstein

Well, it may be paraphrased slightly.

Anyway, for someone who is not religious, I am finding this religious stuff fascinating.

Quote for Tuesday

"Weird clothing is de rigueur for teenagers, but today's generation of teens is finding it difficult to be sufficiently weird. This is because the previous generation of teens, who went through adolescence in the sixties and seventies, used up practically all the available weirdness. After what went on in that twenty-year period, almost nothing looks strange to anyone.

-P.J. O'Rourke

Quote for the First Day

"The journey is the reward."

-Chinese proverb

No, fool, the degree is the reward.

Let's try another...

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

-Chinese proverb

Better.

Friday Quote

”One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

-Madame Curie

Thursday Quote

”A man’s women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass.”

-H.L. Mencken

Wednesday Quote

”Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”

-Oscar Wilde

Tuesday Quote

”Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”

-Grover Cleveland

Monday Quote

”Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”

-Ellen Glasgow

Friday's Quote

”Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer…the great question that has never been answered: ‘What does a woman want?’”

-Sigmund Freud

Thursday's Quote

"We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live."

-Joseph Epstein

Quote for Any Day

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."

-Lena Horne

Tuesday's Quote

"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark..."

-Dave Barry

Today's Quote

Because I'll be stepping today...

"To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping."

-Chinese Proverb

Friday Quote

"Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle."

-Crystal Middlemas

Thursday Quote

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

-Albert Camus

Wednesday Quote

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it!"

-Margaret Thatcher

Tuesday Quote

"What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul."

-Yiddish Proverb

Monday Quote

"Wasting time is wasting life."

-Author Unknown

Friday's Quote

"To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, An eternity in an hour."

-William Blake

Thursday's Quote

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

-Henry David Thoreau

Wednesday's Quote

"The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."

-Galileo

Tuesday's Quote

"The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration."

-Claude Monet

Monday's Quote

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature."

-Anne Frank

Quote of the Day

"The New York Post quoted Senator Hillary Clinton saying that she would never run for President, declaring 'That is not something I'm going to be doing.' Which in Clinton talk means 'I will be President in three years.'"

-Tina Fey

Quote for July 14

"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."

-Birthday boy, Gerald Ford

Wednesday Quote

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."

-Will Rogers

Tuesday Quote

"A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours."

-Milton Berle, who was born on this date in 1908.

Monday Quote Song

The silicon chip inside her head Gets switched to overload. And nobody's gonna go to school today, She's going to make them stay at home. And daddy doesn't understand it, He always said she was as good as gold. And he can see no reason 'Cause there are no reasons What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

The telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world.
And mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to
Their own little girl.
Sweet 16 ain't so peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat.
They can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while.
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die.
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's.
And he can see no reasons
'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die?

Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
Tell me why?
I don't like Mondays.
I want to shoot
The whole day down.

--The Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays"

It's a song I know by heart probably only because Bon Jovi did a cover on it (with Bob Geldof) on their live album.

For the curious, here is the story behind the song.

*Quote For Friday

"The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To some degree or other, we have surrendered into service and are willing to pay the price of compassion.

But with it comes the joy of a single, caring act. With it comes the honor of participating in a generous process in which one rises each day and does what one can. With it comes the simple, singular grace of being an instrument of Love, in whatever form, to whatever end."

-Ram Dass

(Emphasis added.)

*Quote For The End of This Day

"Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows."

-Charles Reade

*Thursday's Quote

"I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms--Truman's and Eisenhower's."

-Alex Karras

Quote for a Wednesday

"Education costs money, but then so does ignorance."

-Sir Claus Moser

Quotes For This Wednesday

"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger."

-Fernand Mery

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't."

-Nan Porter

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave."

-Theophile Gautier

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this."

-Author Unknown

It's Only Tuesday? Quote

Well, it's not a quote. It's a comic. Make due.

(click to enlarge if you wish)

Monday Quote

From memory, so not quite verbatim...

"You know what being 'positive' is, don't you? It's usually being wrong at the top of your lungs."

-Michael Landon as Charles Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie

Quote For This Particular Day

"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."

-Jane Austen

Quote for Any Ol' Day

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."

-Erma Bombeck

Tuesday's Bill Quote

"I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system."

–Bill Clinton, on the White House

Quote for a Bill Week Monday

"I promise not to continuously post about my unemployment. Really."

-Bill

That Bill sure does keep his promises.

Quote for a Friday

"I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I was through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions.

I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook, it was my life that was on the line. This was not a 9-to-5 job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank.

I ask you to go with me, as I went the other day to a Veterans Hospital, and look those men with their mangled bodies in the eye and tell them they didn't hold a job.

You go with me to any Gold Star mother, and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job.

You go with me to the space program, and you go as I have gone to the widows and the orphans of Ed White and Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their dad didn't hold a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day coming up, and you stand on Arlington National Cemetery — where I have more friends than I like to remember — and you watch those waving flags, and you stand there, and you think about this nation, and you tell me that those people didn't have a job.

I tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees every day of your life thanking God that there were some men — SOME MEN — who held a job. And they required a dedication to purpose and a love of country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself.

And their self-sacrifice is what has made this country possible.

I HAVE HELD A JOB, HOWARD!"

-John Glenn, to Howard Metzenbaum when Metzenbaum said Glenn never held a job.

Quote for a Thursday

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

-Thomas Jefferson

Borrowed from Chaplain Lewis.

Show Me the Pepsi!

aka, Wednesday's quote...

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."

-Shaquille O'Neal

Quote for a Decaf Tuesday

"I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee."

-Flash Rosenberg

Quote for a Decaf Monday

"Decaffeinated coffee is the devil's blend."

-Author unknown

*Quote for Friday

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

-Edward Abbey

*Quote for a Thursday

Reporter: "It isn't likely you'll say anything tomorrow at the Fair?"

President Coolidge: "No, I am just going as an exhibit."

*Quote for a Wednesday

"Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted."

-Andrew Jackson

*Quote for Monday Tuesday

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

-John F. Kennedy, whose birthday I failed to mention on May 29.

Friday's Quote

Mr. Pierce has just left here to be gone all the week. I hardly know what to do without him.

-Jane Pierce, letter to her sister, 7/?/1839

Thursday's Quote

Oh guide me, guide me that I may prove worthy of one so good and true, if he may be mine.

-Lucretia Garfield, diary entry, 8/27/1855

Wednesday's Quote

If I were to tell you all the tenderness of my heart, I should do nothing but write to you.

-Abigail Adams, in letter to John Adams, 2/?/1779

Tuesday's Quote

You have scarcely been out of my mind during the day.

-Abigail Fillmore, in letter to Millard Fillmore, 1/17/1829

Monday's Quote

Oh, how I adore you! I am perfectly sure that you are the greatest, most wonderful, most loveable man who ever lived. I am not expressing an opinion, I am simply stating a self-evident fact.

-Ellen Wilson, in letter to Woodrow Wilson, 7/28/1913.

*Quote of the Day

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

-Jackie Robinson

*Quote of the Day

"Mr. Rickey, I've got to do it."

-Jackie Robinson, after Branch Rickey asked him if he'd be able to take the abuse of being baseball's first black player.

*Quote of the Day

"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might."

-Marian Anderson

*Quote of the Day

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

-Louisa May Alcott

*Quote of the Day

"A nuclear reactor is a lot like a woman. You just have to read the manual and press the right buttons."

-Homer Simpson

*Quote of the Day

"She takes just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl."

-Bob Dylan, Just Like a Woman

*Quote of the Day

"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty...you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."

-J.D. Salinger

*Quote of the Day

"If you think too much about being reelected, it is very difficult to be worth reelecting."

-Woodrow Wilson

*Quote of the Day

"You can not stop the spread of an idea by passing a law against it."

-Harry S. Truman

*Quote of the Day

"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."

-Harry S. Truman

*Quote of the Day

"The president is like a jackass standing alone in the middle of a field in a driving hailstorm. There's nothing he can do but stand there and take it."

-Lyndon B. Johnson

*Quote of the Day

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

-Marie Osmond

Quote of the Day

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

-H. L. Mencken

Quote of the Day

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

-Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

"Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

-Vista M. Kelly

Quote of the Day

"If you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas."

-Unknown

Quote of the Day

"A little advice about feelings, kiddo--don't expect it always to tickle."

-Judd Hirsch's character in Ordinary People

Quote of the Day

"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be."

-Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka

Quote of the Day

"It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy."

-Rupert Everett's character in My Best Friend's Wedding

Quotes of the Day

"Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else."

-Oliver Stone

"If I were George Bush, I would shoot myself. I think he lives in fear of drinking again. There's nothing more dangerous for America than an ex-alcoholic President who tells you to believe in Jesus."

-Oliver Stone

*Quote for Monday

Entertainment quotes this week, prepping for the Golden Globes.

"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."

-Billy Wilder

*Quote for the Day

"It has been proven that the pig is the only homosexual animal. As this perversion is most prevalent in pork-eating nations, it is obvious that it gets into your genes through the meat."

-Tasleem Ahmed, Islamic missionary

*Quote for the Day

"It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe it can be physically done, and the other half are doing it."

-Winston Churchill

*Quote for the Day

"Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things. One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth. And you should save it for someone you love."

-Butch Hancock

*Quote for the Day

"Sexuality is the great battle between biology and society."

-Nancy Friday

*Quote for the Day

"Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't."

-George Bernard Shaw

Quote for Friday

"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."

-Leo Rosten

Quote for Thursday

"A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood."

-Leo Rosten

Quote for Wednesday

"Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them."

-Leo Rosten

Quote for Tuesday

"I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong."

-Leo Rosten

Quote for Monday

"We see things as we are, not as they are."

-Leo Rosten

Quote for a Friday

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion. It is also remembering to take out the trash."

-Dr. Joyce Brothers

*Quote for the Day

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

-Hannah Arendt

*Quote of the Day

"The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back."

-Abigail Van Buren

*Quote for a Tuesday

"When I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault."

-Henry Kissinger

*Oh, Right. Content.

I should probably post something today, eh?

Well, here's a quote:

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

-Joseph Brodsky

I'll try to post something else shortly.

*It's Friday, Right? Okay, Quotes for a Friday

For A...

"Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do."

-Bettina Arndt

And because it's my nephew's birthday...

"I have nephews...I remember the first time they stayed with us. My sister-in-law calls me--it was after midnight--and she's like, 'Did you have a hard time getting the boys to sleep?' I'm like, 'Sleep? Girl, we're sitting up drinking liquor, playing Nintendo.'"

-Wanda Sykes

*Quote for the Day

"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."

-Roseanne Barr

*Quote for Whatever Day It Is

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."

-Lady Nancy Astor

*Quote for a Monday

"Take your work seriously, but never yourself."

-Margot Fonteyn

*Quote for the Day

"Yeah, I called her up, she gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something, I don't know, I wasn't really paying attention."

-Jeff Daniels in Dumb and Dumber

*Quote for Any Day

"I'd like the American people to know that we still have two out of three branches of the government working for us, and that ain't bad."

-Jack Nicholson in Mars Attacks

*Quote of the Day

"If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game show host."

-Winona Ryder's character in Heathers

Quote for a Monday

"Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men."

-Mae West's character in I'm No Angel

Quote for a Weekend

"Constantly talking is not necessarily communicating."

-Jim Carrey's character in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Quote for Monday

"I didn't know he was a genius. Frankly, I didn't know what the hell he was."

-Leah Adler, mother of Steven Spielberg

Quote for a Friday

In the "you probably had to be there department"...

"I miss Iggy (pet iguana, now deceased). He needs to come back. He's my best friend."

-Jen's niece, in forlorn and pathetic tones.

"Stop laughing, Jennifer!"

-Jen's niece, shortly after the first quote.

*Quote for a Tuesday

"A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them."

-Ninon de Lenclos

*Quote for a Monday

"Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs."

-William Allen White

*Quote for a Thursday

"When half the men become fond of doing a thing, the other half prohibit it by law."

-Ed Howe

*Quote of the Day

"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin, you never know if someone's tape-recording what you say."

-Richard Nixon

*Quote for Wednesday

On the campaign trail...

"I've read about foreign policy and studied--I know the number of continents."

-George Wallace, presidential candidate

*Quote for Election Time

I think this one works for any campaigning politician, but I'm cynical like that:

"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep."

-George Stephanopolous, when working for Clinton

*Quote for a Monday

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

-H.L. Mencken

Quote for a Tuesday

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

-Abraham Lincoln

Quote for a Monday

"I realized I could have written two songs and made myself some money in that time."

-Irving Berlin, after two days of piano lessons

Quote of the Day

"You've got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one."

-Will Rogers

Quote of the Day

"I am not young enough to know everything."

-Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

"The people I'm getting furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting on their soapboxes proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket."

-Anita Loos

Quotes for a Tuesday

I thought these were appropriate for this election season...

"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them."

-George H.W. Bush

"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."

-Harry S. Truman

Quote for a Tuesday

"I would rather go out of politics feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I had acted as I ought not to."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Cliff's Notes Quotes

I came across this quote again while looking something up for my dad. It pissed me off months ago and it still pisses me off. So I'll just summarize it in my own words.

What he said...

"There is no salvation for those outside the Church...I believe it. Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She's a much better person than I am. Honestly. She's like, Episcopalian, Church of England. She prays, she believes in God, she knows Jesus, she believes in that stuff. And it's just not fair if she doesn't make it, she's better than I am. But that is a pronouncement from the chair. I go with it."

-Mel Gibson

My interpretation...

My God cares more about how you worship than how you live.

Quote of the Day

"Pessimism never won any battle."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote of the Day

"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory."

-Millard Fillmore

Quote of the Day

"We do not need to burn down the house to kill the rats."

-Herbert Hoover

Quote of the Day

"We grow great by dreams. All great men are dreamers."

-Woodrow Wilson

Quote of the Day

"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle. This is politics. This is anything."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Quote of the Day

"To err is nature--to rectify error is glory."

-George Washington

Quote of the Day

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

-Calvin Coolidge

Quote of the Day

"Forgive our enemies, but never forget their names."

-John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day

"Unless he has been part of a cause greater than himself, no man is truly whole."

-Richard M. Nixon

Quote of the Day

"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

-Calvin Coolidge

Quote of the Day

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

-James Madison

Quote of the Day

"Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth."

-Thomas Jefferson

Quote of the Day

"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."

-Woodrow Wilson

Quote of the Day

"Justice and goodwill will outlast passion."

-James A. Garfield

Quote of the Day

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

-Lyndon B. Johnson

Quote of the Day

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

-Harry S. Truman

Quote of the Day

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Quote of the Day

Found at IMAO...

"...my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won."

-Dave Barry

If it weren't for science, we could all comfortably live our lives free from the tyranny of metrics.

*Quote of the Day

"This is gonna be my time. Time to taste the fruits and let the juices drip down my chin. I proclaim this: The Summer of George!"

-George Costanza

*Quote of the Day

"God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours.'"

-Ann Coulter

Rerun: Quotes

(These were originally posted on my old site.)

"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" -Nikita Khrushchev, referring to capitalist nations, 1956.

"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well." -Barbara Bush, Wellesley College commencement, 1990.

Rerun: Quotes

(These were originally posted on my old site.)

"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" -Nikita Khrushchev, referring to capitalist nations, 1956.

"Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well." -Barbara Bush, Wellesley College commencement, 1990.

Quote of the Day

"You never really know a guy until you ask him to wear a rubber."

-Madonna/Esther

Quote of the Day

Yiddish folk sayings...

"The husband is the boss--if the wife allows."

"He who has not tasted the bitter does not understand the sweet."

Quote of the Day

An oldie but goodie...

"Overpaid, overfed, oversexed, and over here."

-Brits regarding Yanks.

"Underpaid, underfed, undersexed, and under Eisenhower."

-Yanks regarding Brits.

Quote of the Day

Just keeping with the WWII theme...

"Cease firing, but if any enemy planes appear, shoot them down in a friendly fashion."

-U.S. Admiral William F. Halsey to his men after the Japanese announced their intent to surrender.

*Quote for Any Ol' Day

Courtesy Bacchus, who is not safe for work and whose link to the entry I want is not working:

"Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot yacht with a 17-year-old girl. Walter's always wanted to go that way, but he's going to settle for a 17-footer and a 70-year-old."

-Mrs. Walter Cronkite

Friday Quote

"Poets are the heart and soul of a people."

-Jewish proverb

Thursday Quote

"Man has succeeded in overcoming tremendous spaces, but not the distance between one man and another."

-Jewish proverb

Wednesday Quote

"We should bolster the light rather than fight the darkness."

-Jewish proverb

Tuesday Quote

"Whoever argues for the sake of argument is a boor."

-Jewish proverb

Quote for Monday Morning

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

-Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

"Some people say we should understand the terrorists; I just say we should understand where they are so we can kill them." -Buck the Marine

Quote for Wednesday

Another Chinese Proverb:

True gold fears not the test of fire.

Proverb for the Day

Here's a Chinese Proverb:

Pioneers plant trees, but the latecomers rest in the shade.

*Quote for Monday Morning

"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

Quote for Friday

"Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking."

-HL Mencken

*Quote for Thursday

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

-John F. Kennedy

*Quote for Wednesday

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

-William Shakespeare

Quote for Tuesday

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Quote for Monday Morning

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?"

-Ronald Reagan

Quotes for This Day

"I found my inner-bitch and ran with her."

-Courtney Love

"A bitch is more memorable than a sweet housewife."

-Bette Davis

Quote for this day

For the ladies.

"Don't put an absurdly high value on him. Think of the millions of other girls doing without him, yet able to bear it!"

-Orfea Sybil

Quote for Friday

"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect." -Winston Churchill

Quote for Thursday

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln

Quote for Wednesday

"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party." -Winston Churchill

Quote for Tuesday

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Quote for Monday

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." -Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -John F. Kennedy

*Quote of the Day

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute--and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." -Albert Einstein

Quote of the Day

Only one today:

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." -Vince Lombardi

*Quotes of the Day

"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations." -Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

"The music of his own vain tongue doth ravish him like enchanting harmony." -William Shakespeare

*Quotes of the Day

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put make-up on two faces." -Maureen Murphy

"You unlettered small-knowing soul." -William Shakespeare

*Quotes of the Day

"Late birds get worms while early birds get tired." -Judith Viorst

"I should be angry with you if the time were convenient." -William Shakespeare

*Quotes of the Day

"Too many people seem to think life is a spectator sport." -Katharine Hepburn

"You scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe!" -William Shakespeare

*Quotes of the Day

No one missed them last week, but I'm throwing out a couple anyway.

"The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day." -Lynne Truss

"I do desire we may be better strangers." -William Shakespeare

Quotes of the Day

"Americans are people who laugh at African witch doctors and spend 100 million dollars on fake reducing systems." -L.L. Levinson

"I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties." -Linda Ellerbee

*Quotes of the Day

"Americans think of themselves as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt." -Eldridge Cleaver

"We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with." -Redd Foxx

*Quotes of the Day

"The French complain about everything and always." -Napoleon Bonaparte

"As far as I'm concerned, morality is just a word that describes the current fashion of conduct." -Sally Stanford

Quotes of the Day

"I don't even know what street Canada is on." -Al Capone

"I like men who have a future and women who have a past." -Oscar Wilde

*Quotes of the Day

"Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better." -Robert Redford

"Celibacy is not hereditary." -Oscar Wilde

*Quotes of the Day

"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts." -Samuel Johnson

"By the time he finishes defining sex, I think I'll learn that I'm actually a virgin." -Scarlet Thomas, on Bill Clinton's sex scandal

*Quotes of the Day

"The worst drug of today is not smack or pot--it's refined sugar." -George Hamilton in 1980

"Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they're not sleeping with somebody." -Margaret Mead

*Quotes of the Day

"I studied dramatics under him for twelve years." -Dwight Eisenhower on General Douglas MacArthur

"God created man and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly." -Paul Valery

*Quotes of the Day

"I think there is an immense shortage of Christian charity among so-called Christians." -Harry S. Truman

"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

*Quotes of the Day

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help." -Abraham Lincoln

"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars." -Bruce Willis

*Quotes of the Day

"The Creator is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh." -H. L. Mencken

"The man's desire is for the woman; the woman's desire is for the desire of the man." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Heard on Mancow this morning...

"We don't have Osama, but we have that evil Martha Stewart."

*Quotes of the Day

"Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you will always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them." -H.L. Mencken

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly." -Rose Franklin

*Quotes of the Day

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written...by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." -Alexander Hamilton

"Men aren't attracted to me by my mind. They're attracted by what I don't mind." -Gypsy Rose Lee

*Quotes of the Day

"Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt, speaking to the Daughters of the American Revolution

"A man on a date wonders if he'll get lucky. The woman already knows." -Monica Piper

*Quotes of the Day

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt." -John Philpot Curran

"My right leg is Christmas and my left leg is Thanksgiving. Why don't you come and visit me between the holidays?" -Mae West

*Quotes of the Day

"Any government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poor house." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I was talking to someone on the phone last night who mentioned brevity is the soul of wit...

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
-Dorothy Parker

*Quotes of the Day

(Oddly, the server at work is still down and keeping me from doing, you know, work--but internet access is up again. So I blog.)

"A work of art is useless. So is a flower." -Oscar Wilde

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he--for some good reason--thinks it would be a good idea to give them." -Andy Warhol

*Quote of the Day

"None of us really understands what's going on with all these numbers." -David Stockman, Director of Office of Management and Budget, 1981.

"That most delicious of all privileges--spending other people's money." -John Randolph, congressman during 1799-1829.

Quote of the Day

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter." -Mark Twain

"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects." -Will Rogers

Quote of the Day

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." -Edmund Burke

Quote of Day

Yesterday we talked male parts. Now it's time for female parts.

When a man can't explain a woman's actions, the first thing he thinks about is the condition of her uterus.

-Clare Boothe Luce

The only people any good at cunnilingus are didgeridoo players because they can do circular breathing, which means they can go down on you for about six years. And that's how long it takes.

-Jenny Eclair

Quote of the Day

Let's talk penises...

It is not just there to look pretty, a thing it is very bad at anyway.

-Julie Burchill

A delicately rosy, silky-satin, somehow innocent, always-vulnerable erect penis is probably the most fascinating object in the world.

-Helen Gurley Brown

Quote-like thought of the day

Ain klai-zeiyin chazak min ha'adishut; lo t'natzchuha.

-Jewish proverb

Translation: There is no stronger weapon than indifference; you won't beat it.

Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things people might remember.
-Eugene McCarthy

Random quote of the day...

There are different Klans--just like there's different fraternities at a college.
-David Duke, explaining his KKK membership

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Political quote of the day...

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
-Aristotle

Random quote of the day...

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
-Oscar Wilde

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Political quote of the day...

The Secret Service is under orders that if Bush is shot, to shoot Quayle.
-John Kerry, repeating a popular joke in 1988

Random quote of the day...

I'm all for Lawrence Welk. Lawrence Welk is a wonderful man. He used to be or was, or wherever he is now, bless him.
-George Bush the senior

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Political quote of the day...

Every time I fill a vacant office I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
-Louis XIV

Random quote of the day...

A woman is like a teabag--only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
-Nancy Reagan

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Political Quote of the Day...

I lead with my heart and not my head and that's the only chance we have against George Bush.
-Howard Dean

Random Quote of the Day...

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd roll over in his grave.
-Gerald Ford

*Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
-Benjamin Disraeli

History quote of the day...

With history one can never be certain, but I think I can safely say that Aristotle Onassis would not have married Mrs. Krushchev.
-Gore Vidal, when asked what would have happened if Khrushchev rather than Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.

Random quote of the day...

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference on the subject altogether.
-Lord Byron

*Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country he would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at taxpayer's expense.
-H.L. Mencken, regarding Harry Truman's 1948 campaign

History quote of the day...

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
-Philip Guedalla

Random quote of the day...

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
-C. Northcote Parkinson

*Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

(A good politician needs) the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
-Winston Churchill

History quote of the day...

History is more or less bunk.
-Henry Ford

Random quote of the day...

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
-Sydney Smith

*Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Dogs are interested in fleas.
-P.J. O'Rourke

History quote of the day...

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
-Oscar Wilde

Random quote of the day...

Canadians are Americans with no Disneyland.
-Margaret Mahy

*Quote of the Day

Political Quote of the Day...

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Random Quote of the Day...

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote of the Day

Political Quote of the Day...

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing they are participating in government.
-Gerald Lieberman

Random Quote of the Day...

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
-Oscar Wilde

Daniel's Literary Quote of the Day...

The majority is always sane.
-Larry Niven

Quote of the Day

Political Quote of the Day...

The U.S. brags about its political system, but the president says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else during midterm, and something else when he leaves.
-Deng Xiaoping

Random Quote of the Day...

The best time I had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
-Bette Davis

Daniel's Literary Quote of the Day

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is usually plain
-Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

Political Quote of the Day...

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
-Oscar Ameringer

Random Quote of the Day...

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.
-Oliver Herford

Daniel's Literary Quote of the Day...

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
-Douglas Adams

Quote of the Day

Political Quote of the Day...

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

Random Quote of the Day...

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor

Daniel's Literary Quote of the Day...

I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
- Daisy in The Great Gatsby

Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
-Will Rogers

Random quote of the day...

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.
-Anonymous

Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
-Napoleon

Random quote of the day...

Women have their faults. Men have only two: Everything they say. Everything they do.
-Anonymous

Quote of the Day

Political Quote of the Day...

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
-Mark Twain

Random Quote of the Day...

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
-Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
-Henry Adams

Random quote of the day...

Do, or do not. There is no try.
-Yoda

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Political quote of the day...

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
-Gore Vidal

Random quote of the day...

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'
-Isaac Asimov

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Political quote of the day...

Diplomacy --- the art of saying 'Nice doggie' 'til you can find a stick.
-Wynn Catlin

Random quote of the day...

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
-Hunter S. Thompson

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Political quote of the day...

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
-John F. Kennedy

Random quote of the day...

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
-Thomas L. Peacock, in 1860

Quote of the Day

Some religious flavah.

Political quote of the day...

If God had been a Liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments--we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
-Malcolm Bradbury

Random quote of the day...

If Jesus were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.
-Thomas Carlyle

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Political quote of the day...

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
-Mort Sahl

Random quote of the day...

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism.
-John H. Holmes

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Political quote of the day...

With Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law, and every time they make a law, it's a joke.
-Will Rogers

Random quote of the day...

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
-Fran Lebowitz

Jen's algebra story in the extended...

The only thing worse than advanced algebra when you hate algebra is having to switch schools in the middle of the year...and the new advanced algebra class is working on something you have no clue about. Somehow (I assure you I have no idea how) I managed to get a C that semester. I thanked Mr. Petersen profusely when I ran into him later on. He said I had earned it. I laughed, and laughed...and laughed some more.

I'm laughing now.

Where was I? Oh yeah...algebra sucks. The End.

(And thank God for the grading curve.)

Quote of the Day

Political quote of the day...

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
-David Broder

Random quote of the day...

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.
-Mark Twain

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Political quote of the day...

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
-Henry Adams

Random quote of the day...

Literature is mostly about having sex, and not much about having babies; life is the other way round.
-David Lodge

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Political Quote of the Day...

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
-Henrik Ibsen

Random Quote of the Day...

I'm glad the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.
-Mark Twain, on art

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Political Quote of the Day...

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
-Plato

Random Quote of the Day...

A dress has no purpose unless it makes a man want to take it off.
-Francoise Sagan

Fun With Quotes

I am one of those people who doesn't get too hyper about presidential politics ahead of time. I follow the candidates with some bemusement interest, but unless a candidate really catches my eye, I generally wait for the dust to settle.

I don't put a whole lot of stock in media or pundit predictions, either. Here is one I came across while putting together my presidential quotes:

"Absent a scandal or economic collapse, Clinton's a goner." From Fred Barnes in The New Republic in May, 1992; declaring Bill Clinton's presidential candidacy to be dead in the water.

It's not over until the fat man plays sax. Or something like that.

Wake me when the National Conventions start.