Your Quote of the Day

Smile, cry - what do you want to do?

(During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on stage) Judge: 'Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?' Mae West: 'On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin' my best to conceal it.'
Mae West

"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s
only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop
running around after happiness.”
Edith Wharton

"Yes, mother, I can see you are flawed.
You have not hidden it.
That is your greatest gift to me."
Alice Walker

“I honk at protestors to show my support, and also tell them to get the **** out of my way.”
― Jarod Kintz, $3.33

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass

Best jokes about the Bronx
“If you’re going to the Bronx Zoo, I recommend getting into the cages for safety.”
—@marknorm (Mark Normand)
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/comedy/best-jokes-about-the-five-boroughs-our-favorite-borobash-tweets

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

"Give me chastity ... ... and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine

Where have I heard that before?

“Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.”
Laurence Olivier, Sir

Living is long periods of ennui punctuated by occasional orgies of strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms.

The length of the periods of ennui is directly proportional to the distance from the limelight.

"It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself."
Epicurus

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a stand still in mid-seas.

For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and a passion unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily ressurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.”


― Kahlil Gibran, Il Profeta

"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
William Makepeace Thackeray

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
Theodore Roosevelt

“The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.”
― Joel Salatin, Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue." — Dorothy Parker

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
George Barnard Shaw