Your Quote of the Day

The difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own

Fank Zappa

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
― Alfred Adler

“How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'.”
Martin Luther

"Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
John Wooden

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”

Thomas Paine

“In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.”
― Honoré de Balzac, The Atheist's Mass

The Democrat elite sit go to the feast and eat and drink until they're satiated then leave the table scraps for the servants and fool themselves and others that they care about the servants. The GOP elite go to the feast and eat and drink until they're satiated then put the scraps in go boxes to prevent them from falling into the hands of the servants, making no pretense that they care about them.

Bi-Polar Bear

“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ”
― W.C. Fields

“Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?"
"Every one of them," Yossarian told him.
"Every one of whom?"
"Every one of whom do you think?"
"I haven't any idea."
"Then how do you know they aren't?"
"Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration.
Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

And which gets it's "of no further use" carcass into the meat pies, burgers, Cornish pasties, sausages, salamis, lasagnes and frozen ready-mades right across the range that you see so attractively displayed in the freezer units of the large supermarket chains. In Europe I mean.

"Never smarten up a chump" is my favourite WCF witticism. Although setting alight the bailiff's warrant scene was very amusing. He had a wonderful attitude to the ladies. Such integrity is very rare.

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like ****.”

Martin Amis

“By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

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

“Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin

"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other."
Walter Lippmann

"A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it." (J.R. Ewing to his lawyer and lover, Anita Smithfield)

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
Bob Marley

“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise