Quotes of the day (QOTD)

[Penthome]

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Herbert George Wells

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day
you decide how you're going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it
takes to reach that goal, and by
maintaining focus." - Oprah

[Penthome]

If you really want something in life you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers. Homer Simpson

[Penthome]

Every woman should marry an archaeologist because she grows increasingly attractive to him as she grows increasingly to resemble a ruin. - Agatha Christie

"Long-range goals keep you from being
frustrated by short-term failures."
- James Cash Penney

[Penthome]

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to -pen it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

"You must take personal responsibility.
You cannot change the circumstances,
the seasons, or the wind, but
you can change yourself"
- Jim Rohn

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
  - G. K. Chesterton
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
  - Samuel McChord Crothers
The gods too are fond of a joke.
  - Aristotle

[Penthome]

"To accomplish great things, we must
not only act, but also dream, not
only plan, but also believe."
- Anatole France

[Penthome]

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke

"The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it."
- Michelangelo

[Penthome]

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."
- Marva Collins

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
  - Evan Esar
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
  - Cecil Baxter
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
  - Thomas Szasz

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

[Penthome]

"Come to the edge, he said. They said:
We are afraid. Come to the edge, he
said. They came. He pushed them,
And they flew..."
- Guillaume Apollinaire

"The greatest things ever done on Earth
have been done little by little."
- William Jennings Bryan

An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex.- Edgar Wallace

[Penthome]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
  - Leo Rosten
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
  - Herbert Hoover
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
  - Anonymous

"Remember there's no such thing as a
small act of kindness. Every act
creates a ripple with no logical end."
- Scott Adams

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.

David Letterman

[Penthome]

"The first requisite of success is the
ability to apply your physical and
mental energies to one problem
without growing weary."
- Thomas Edison

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

[Penthome]

Wen u Sex at Eighteen, u wuld love it. At Twenty eight, u wuld wnt it. At thirty eight, u wuld ask 4it, At Forty eight, u wuld beg 4it, At fifty eight, u wuld pay 4it. At sixty eight you wuld fink aboult it and at seventy eight u wuld 4get aboult it. Dats D Deal Dem Ma Breezessss.

[Penthome]

"You have to believe in yourself
when no one else does.
That's what makes you a winner."
- Venus Williams

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Neil Armstrong

Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.
  - Peter Blake
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
  - Bill Cosby
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
  - Daphne du Maurier

[Penthome]

Be very careful if you make a woman cry, because God counts her tears. The woman came out of a man's rib, not from his feet to be walked on, not from his head to be superior, but from his side to be equal! Under the arm to be protected, & next to the heart to be loved. Copy and paste if you agree

[Penthome]

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.-Henny Youngman

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
-Mark Twain

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
  - Benjamin Franklin
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
  - Anatole France
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
  - Andre Gide

[Penthome]

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down!

[Penthome]

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.-
Napoleon

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
  - C. P. Snow
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
  - unknown
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
  - Frederick Locker-Lampson

"The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power."
- Hugh White

[mona]

 Make big plans. Big plans attract big people. Don’t make small plans. Small plans attract mall people and small people cause big problems. -Japanese proverb

[Penthome]

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the
world. It beats money and power and
influence. It is no more or less
than faith in action."
- Henry Chester

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
  - Charles Wadsworth

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
  - Albert Schweitzer

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
  - Steven Wright

[mona]

I don't believe in circumstances.the people who really make it in this world are the ones who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them,they make them.
-Unknown

[Penthome]

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

Elbert Hubbard

[Penthome]

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

"It has been my philosophy of life that
difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
- Isaac Asimov

[Solimontero1]

Ok,make una hear my own;
it is useless to ask a toad 4 a seat when u see her squatting!

[Solimontero1]

"be nice to every one that smokes coz his next stick of cigarette  might jst be his last...(kaput)

[Penthome]

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
  - Harry Golden

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
  - Oscar Wilde

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
  - George Santayana

"Whatever you can do, or dream you
can begin it. Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it."
- Goethe

[Penthome]

A joke's a very serious thing.
  - Charles Churchill

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
  - Henry Kissinger

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
  - James Thurber

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
-Will Rogers

"You are a living magnet. What you
attract into your life is in harmony
with your dominant thoughts."
- Brian Tracy

[Penthome]

"When life's problems seem
overwhelming, look around and see
what other people are coping with.
You may consider yourself fortunate."
- Ann Landers

[Penthome]

The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that Genius has its limits... Albert Einstein

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
  - Aleister Crowley

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
  - Thomas Jefferson

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
  - W. Somerset Maugham

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

"You must take personal responsibility.
You cannot change the circumstances,
the seasons, or the wind, but
you can change yourself"
- Jim Rohn

[Penthome]

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less.
- Brendon Francis

[Penthome]

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
  - George Burns

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
  - Cullen Hightower

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
  - Vince Lombardi

[Penthome]

hell education in general is a rip-off. Put yourself in debt 40000 bucks wait in line for the same 12 buck an hour jobs! Anon.

Communism is like one big phone company.
  - Lenny Bruce
The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
  - From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
  - J. D. Salinger