Quote of the Day

So it's home again, and home again, America for me! My heart is turning home again and there I long to be.
-Henry van Dyke-

 

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton

 

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
-Samuel Johnson-

 

"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him."
-H. Mathews-

 

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

 

If life was fair, the horse would get to ride half the time.

 

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin

 

Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money. - W. J. Cameron

 

“With the single exception of wisdom, I am inclined to regard it [friendship] as the greatest of all the gifts the gods have bestowed upon mankind. Some people, I know, give preference to riches, or good health, or power, or public honours. And many rank sensuous pleasures highest of all. But feelings of that kind are something which any animal can experience; and the other items in that list, too, are thoroughly transient and uncertain.” - Cicero, On Friendship

 

Assumptions are the termites of relationships. - Henry Winkler

 

"'On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined!' is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine."
-Mark Twain-

 

The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor. - William Feather

 

"Not in rewards, but in strength to strive, the blessing lies."
-J. T. Trowbridge-

 

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Ambrose Bierce

 

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas H. Huxley

 

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. - Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)

 

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

 

England and America are two countries separated by a common language. - George Bernard Shaw

 

I'm all for a woman president. At least we wouldn't have to pay her as much.