Your Quote of the Day

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

When people unwittingly eat human flesh, served by unscrupulous restaurant
owners . . . the similarity to pork is often noted.

~Galen
On the Power of Foods

O what foods ye morsels be.
- Mad ( EC Comic Book)

The Public Be Damned
William H. Vanderbilt,philanthropist,1882, in private.

“There is a giant asleep within every man. When the giant awakes, miracles happen.”
-Frederick Faust

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~ Albert Schweitzer

I see what you did there.

There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns.
That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But
there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know
we don't know. So when we do the best we can and we pull all this
information together, and we then say well that's basically what we see
as the situation, that is really only the known knowns and the known
unknowns. And each year, we discover a few more of those unknown
unknowns.

~Donald Rumsfeld
From a Press Conference at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium,
June 6, 2002

I believe that one tops this ,though a more memorable, one I was about to post:

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's reply to a soldier's query about shoddy maintenance support. Kuwait, 2004.

True bureaucratic talent at its finest.

Good one, nomad man.

"'Beauty is truth; truth, beauty'--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Keats, Ode to a Grecian Urn

"I don't think I'm going to win."
Newt Gingrich, in Iowa, yesterday

"I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes -- ah, there is where the artistry lies!"

Arthur Schnabel

Never eat more than you can lift.
~ Miss Piggy

...and :
“Never eat anything you can't lift.”
~ Miss Piggy again.

Just saw We Bought a Zoo
Favorite quote:

Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage,
just literally 20 seconds of just embarrassing bravery,
And I promise you something great will come of it.
Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee

Think it is the most inspiring thing I have heard in a long time.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Benjamin Franklin

Nobody in football should be called a genius.
A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

~Joe Theismann

That the guy in Cheers?

"My gast was pretty well flabbered."
Harry Dresden in The Dresden Files #13 - Ghost Story - By Jim Butcher

(Haha..just loved that line)

"Having a positive mental attitude is
asking how something can be done rather than
saying it can't be done."

JimmyBo Bennett