Your Quote of the Day

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
- Confucius

Jesus said it better--

Get thee behind me Satan!

Jones's Law:
The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on.

And the best smiles are when it is himself he blames it on.

Behind my smile is everything you'll never understand. ~ Anonymous

“The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask”

“Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

But what would happen if nobody ever embraced any preposterous delusions and we were to be faced with occasional bleak truths with nothing in between?

I assume that Bill Watterson is an exceedingly superior sort of cove. One wouldn't wish to be deluded in that respect eh what?

Bill Waterson authored the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and therefore ranks among the great thinkers of the age.

"To sit in idleness over a good fire in a well-proportioned room is a luxurious sensation."

Jane Austen.

Jane Porter: I was saved! I was saved by a flying wild man in a loincloth.

“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.”
Joss Whedon

“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
― Norman Mailer

“I hate when people say 'I see'. It doesn't mean anything and I think it's hostile. Whenever anyone tells me 'I see' I think they're really saying '**** you'.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain

“Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons

To harbour spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.”
― Anton Chekhov

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
― Pearl S. Buck

Aaaaaahh!!

“You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas”
― David Crockett