Your Quote of the Day

“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
― W.C. Fields

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

/Theodore Roosevelt

“When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“Learning is about looking at things differently, making your life a little better everyday.” Richard Bandler

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift.

He was a dauntless man who first ate a human.

I heard the tiger was threatened. There must be some very brave people out there, I would never threaten a tiger. Letter to Viz.

“And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?”
― Shel Silverstein, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

- Rumi

Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life

- Dolly Parton

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift

Well...what about dr. Pepper or Diet Coke...this is Bogus..

“You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”
― Rachel Ward

“Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about.”
― Ray Bradbury

So true! I remember as a kid reading Dick Tracy comics with the wrist watch radio. We thought that was so futuristic. That's 'old' stuff now; we have cell phones and computers on those damn things. LOL

I think one needs to know what they're making a decision on,

“In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.”
― Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love Texas or passionately hate it and, as in other religions, few people dare to inspect it for fear of losing their bearings in mystery or paradox. But I think there will be little quarrel with my feeling that Texas is one thing. For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, Texas has a tight cohesiveness perhaps stronger than any other section of America. Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22


“If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell”
― Philip Henry Sheridan


“Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll win a war.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

“Girlie, I'm front Texas. We shoot at each other to say good morning.”
― Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick

"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."

John W Gardner