Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists." [via Quotes of the Day]
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April 28, 2006
QOTD 4/28/2006
Posted by snooze at 9:29 AM
April 23, 2006
QOTD 04/23/2006
Emo Phillips
"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 7:58 PM
April 20, 2006
QOTD 4/20/2006
Samuel Butler
"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 9:41 AM
April 13, 2006
QOTD 4/13/2006
Niels Bohr
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."[via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 1:36 PM
February 22, 2006
QOTD 02/22/2006
Pablo Picasso
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."[via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 6:52 PM
January 3, 2006
QOTD 01/03/2006
William Gibson
"The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 10:13 AM
November 11, 2005
QOTD 11/11/2005
Laurie Anderson
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 1:10 PM
July 27, 2005
QOTD 07/27/2005
Mark Twain
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." [Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 7:31 PM
July 20, 2005
QOTD 07/20/2005
Gertrude Stein
"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." [Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 4:44 PM
June 28, 2005
QOTD 06/28/2005
Mark Twain
"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption." [Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 11:38 AM
June 27, 2005
QOTD 06/27/2005
Walter Bagehot
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations." [Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 12:54 PM
April 11, 2005
QOTD 04/11/2005
Friedrich Nietzsche
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 7:53 AM
April 9, 2005
QOTD 04/09/2005
Tom Stoppard
"Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?" [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 7:02 PM
March 22, 2005
QOTD 03/22/2005
Douglas Adams
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 11:27 AM
March 19, 2005
QOTD 03/19/2005
Harry Shearer
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 9:34 AM
March 12, 2005
QOTD 03/12/2005
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 9:03 AM
March 6, 2005
QOTD 03/06/2005
Umberto Eco
"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." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 6:56 PM
December 6, 2004
QOTD 12/6/2004
Mark Twain
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 9:06 AM
November 30, 2004
QOTD 11/30/2004
Laurence J. Peter
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 6:55 PM
November 29, 2004
QOTD 11/29/2004
Oscar Wilde
"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 10:03 AM
November 24, 2004
QOTD 11/25/2004
William H. Mauldin
"I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 2:25 PM
November 21, 2004
QOTD 11/21/2004
Henrik Tikkanen
"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 5:45 PM
November 18, 2004
QOTD 11/18/2004
Voltaire
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 10:08 AM
November 15, 2004
QOTD 11/15/2004
Hubert H. Humphrey
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 8:40 PM
November 14, 2004
QOTD 11/14/2004
M. C. Escher
"He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 8:21 PM
November 13, 2004
QOTD 11/13/2004
Horace Walpole
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 1:58 AM
November 11, 2004
QOTD 11/11/04
Robert Frost
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 9:25 PM
November 6, 2004
QOTD 11/06/2004
George Bernard Shaw
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"" [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 12:41 AM
October 31, 2004
QOTD 10/31/2004
Jim Horning
"Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 10:25 PM
October 29, 2004
QOTD 10/29/2004
Roy Blount Jr.
"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'" [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 7:03 AM
October 9, 2004
QOTD 10/09/2004
Peter Sellers
"There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 12:47 AM
October 5, 2004
QOTD 10/05/2004
Vladimir Nabokov
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 2:04 PM
October 2, 2004
QOTD 10/2/2004
John Lehman
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 12:42 PM
September 29, 2004
QOTD 09/29/2004
Oscar Wilde
"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 7:19 AM
September 25, 2004
QOTD 09/25/2004
Fred Allen
"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 8:50 AM
September 23, 2004
QOTD 09/23/2004
Russell Baker
"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 8:28 PM
September 19, 2004
QOTD 09/19/2004
William Shakespeare
"Exit, pursued by a bear." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 12:00 PM
September 18, 2004
QOTD 09/18/2004
Sir Richard Steele
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 11:05 AM
September 17, 2004
QOTD 08/17/2004
Hermann Hesse
"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 2:51 PM
September 15, 2004
QOTD 09/15/2004
Mark Twain
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 12:08 PM
September 14, 2004
QOTD
Ralph Hodgson
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 10:10 AM
September 10, 2004
QOTD 09/10/2004
Elbert Hubbard:
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." [via Quotes of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 11:29 AM
September 9, 2004
QOTD 09/09/04
Pat Conroy:
"I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position." [via Quote of the Day]
Posted by snooze at 6:52 AM
September 5, 2004
QOTD 09/05/2004
Robert Orben
"Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away."
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Posted by snooze at 3:59 AM
September 1, 2004
QOTD 09/01/2004
Malcolm Forbes
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route."
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Posted by snooze at 8:07 AM
August 31, 2004
QOTD 08/31/2004
Wilson Mizner
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
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Posted by snooze at 9:31 AM
August 30, 2004
QOTD 08/30/2004
E. B. White
"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
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Posted by snooze at 11:35 AM
August 28, 2004
QOTD 08/28/2004
Thomas A. Edison
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
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Posted by snooze at 10:21 AM
August 18, 2004
QOTD 08/18/2004
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
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Posted by snooze at 8:57 AM
August 15, 2004
QOTD 08/15/2004
Voltaire
"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
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Posted by snooze at 8:02 AM
August 4, 2004
QOTD 08/04/2004
Alfred North Whitehead
"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
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Posted by snooze at 1:27 PM