Quotes of the day (QOTD)

[Penthome]

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford

[Penthome]

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.

Douglas Adams

[Penthome]

I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life.

Kevin Costner

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
  - Henri-Frédéric Amiel
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
  - Chuck Reid
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
  - Wilson Mizner

[Penthome]

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

[Penthome]

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
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
  - Albert Camus
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
  - Mickey Rooney

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

John Maynard Keynes

[Penthome]

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
  - Jonathan Swift
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
  - Artemus Ward
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
  - Galileo Galilei
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
  - Douglas Adams

[Penthome]

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
  - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
  - Aldous Huxley
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
  - Mo Udall

[Penthome]

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Mark Twain

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

[Penthome]

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

Mark Twain

[Penthome]

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
  - Lewis Carroll
In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
  - David Smith
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
  - Unknown

[Penthome]

Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
  - Sir Winston Churchill
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
  - John Kenneth Galbraith
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
  - Hodding Carter

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[Penthome]

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

[Solimontero1]

The biggest risk in life is never take a risk

[Penthome]

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Henry Ford

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
  - Martin Luther King Jr.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
  - John Ciardi
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
  - George Winters

[Penthome]

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
  - Sir Arthur Eddington
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
  - Fred Allen
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
  - Albert Einstein

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost

[BBFan]

Pent you can count on me to beat you to it this year

Confusion is always the most honest response.
  - Marty Indik
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
  - William James
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
  - Joseph Wood Krutch
"The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power."
- Hugh White
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-Ambrose Bierce

[Penthome]

" Hello,

I would like to first state that I am a Caucasian. I have been happily married to an African American woman for the last 5 years. Since then I have found out many things like African Americans do not like the word “Negro” that much and would preferred to be called African Americans. I guess it sounds too much like the other “n-word”.

At first I would like to say that I thought that the film was done beautifully and I can see why some people did not see anything racist in the film. I also would have seen anything racist, if it was not for my wife, who opened my eyes to the bombardment of racial stereotypes given to the public from Hollywood. Hollywood usually tries to show to the world that Caucasians are superior, that American Indians are savages that South Americans are drug dealers that Asian people are small, talk funny and are good in martial arts and that African Americans are no more than public servants. I know that there are very few films that do not show minorities in this light and that we have become accustomed to Hollywood’s racist ideology of people within certain races and gender for that fact. So the next time you watch a film from Hollywood, see if the minorities represented in the film meet those of which I noted before.

Make no mistake about it the film coming from Hollywood are racist and sexist."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markmardell/2010/01/is_blue_the_new_black_why_some.html#P90497015

[Penthome]

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
  - Charles Caleb Colton
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
  - Russell P. Askue
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
  - Kin Hubbard
"The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Penthome]

"The heights by great men reached and
kept, were not attained by sudden
flight, but they, while their companions
slept, were toiling upward in the night."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm a personality as well as an actress. Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star.

Katharine Hepburn

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
  - David Sedaris
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
  - I. F. Stone
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
  - Soren Kierkegaard

[Penthome]

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you
run into a wall, don't turn around and
give up. Figure out how to climb it,
go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan

Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.

Ambrose Bierce

[Penthome]

There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.
  - Jeph Jacques
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
  - William Wrigley Jr.
No good deed goes unpunished.
  - Clare Booth Luce
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-George Santayana
"In the confrontation between the stream
and the rock, the stream always wins
- not by strength but by perseverance."
- H. Jackson Brown

[Penthome]

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
-Henry Ford

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
  - Stephen King
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.
  - Robert Frost
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
  - Oscar Wilde

[Penthome]

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
-George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is everything. It is the
preview of life's coming attractions"
- Albert Einstein

[Penthome]

Despite the gender equality concept, a woman expects u 2 treat her like a lady and not a man!

[Penthome]

"The greatest mistake you can make in
life is to be continually fearing
you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey
upon you, and in the end you
are sure to succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.
  - Ellen DeGeneres
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
  - Fran Lebowitz
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
  - Paul Fussell

[Penthome]

The only completely consistent people are the dead.
-Aldous Huxley

"He, who every morning plans the
transactions of the day, and follows that
plan carries a thread that will guide him
through a labyrinth of the most busy life"
- Victor Hugo

[Penthome]

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

[Penthome]

I'm glad, we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

Queen Elizabeth


"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
  - George Orwell
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
  - Gail Godwin
Oregano is the spice of life.
  - Henry J. Tillman

[Penthome]

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy.  And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.

Warren Buffet

[Penthome]

"Never worry about numbers.
Help one person at a time,
and always start with
the person nearest you."
- Mother Teresa

The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
  - Seth MacFarlane
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
  - Edmond de Goncourt
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
  - Isaac Asimov