Your Quote of the Day

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy"
Heraclitus

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

"Luck is where opportunity meets preparation"
Seneca

I've always said "I've been lucky," but people correct me and say I prepared myself for those luck. I still claim luck, because I was "at the right place at the right time."

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."

Plutarch

Who originally said this?
"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'what might have been".

Answers

Best Answer: The "mice and men" version does appear in Vonnegut's novel "Cat's Cradle", but Vonnegut is paraphrasing this ...

For of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

... from an 1856 poem, "Maud Muller" by John Greenleaf Whittier. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nVYAA...

Vonnegut was probably conflating the Maud Muller lines with Robert Burns' "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley".
Source(s):
Maud Muller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Muller

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin And Hobbes: Tenth Anniversary Book

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

"Human nature is such that all see and judge better the affairs of other men than their own."
Terrance

"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

Marcus Aurelius

Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.

"Listen silently and you can hear the frequency of love.”

― Jarod Kintz

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
― Bill Watterson

President Bush, the Elder, in response to a question about when his party would nominate a woman for POTUS:

"This is supposed to be the year of the women in the Senate. Let's see how they do. I hope a lot of them lose." (1992 )