Quote of the Day!
February 22, 2019
"If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold." Louis D. Brandeis
"A great many people think they are thinking, when they are really rearranging their prejudices." Edward R. Murrow
"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong." Fuller
"I do not understand what the man's who is happy wants in order to be more happier." Cicero
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." Charles Schulz
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man without trials." Chinese Proverb
"No matter how much work a man can do, no matter how engaging his personality may be, he will not advance far in business if he cannot work through others." John Craig
"Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6,000 years ago." Edgar Allan Poe
"If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold - billions of dollars worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity." Charles F.
"One man can completely change the character of the country, and the industry of the people, by dropping a single seed in the fertile soil." John C. Gifford
"Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself," John W. Raper
"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young." Arthur Wing Pinero
"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets." Will Rogers
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." Will Rogers
"I remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money." Will Rogers
"There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fench for themselves." Will Rogers
"Our Constitution Protects Aliens, Drunks, and U.S. Senators." Will Rogers
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Chinese Proverb
"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered." Louis D. Brandeis
"The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it." Clarence Darrow
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Capitalism and Communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home says: "No man should have so much." The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: "All men should have as much." Phelps Adams
"One who is to wise of an observer of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity." Pope
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it." Ernest Holmes
"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." Stephen Bishop
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." Oscar Wilde
"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one." George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one." Winston Churchill, in response.