Quote of the Day

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. - Ambrose Bierce

 

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. - Woody Allen

 

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James A. Baldwin

 

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson

 

"The grass is never greener on the other side. It just tastes different."

 

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

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

 

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. - Voltaire

 

"At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote." - Emo Philips

 

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler

 

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
'To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late,
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods'

- Horatius, Thomas Babington Macaulay

 

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - William James

 

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

-Bruce Feirstein

 

“These people raid the other islands and carry off all the women they can take, especially the young and beautiful, whom they keep as servants and concubines. They had carried off so many that in fifty houses we found no males and more than twenty of the captives were girls. These women say they are treated with cruelty that seems incredible. The Caribs (the aboriginals the Caribbean Islands and Sea are named after) eat the male children that they have by them, and only bring up the children of their own women; and as for the men they are able to capture, they bring those who are alive home to be slaughtered and eat those who are dead on the spot. They say that human flesh is so good that there is nothing like it in the world; and this must be true, for the human bones we found in their houses were so gnawed that no flesh was left on them except what was too tough to be eaten. In one house the neck of a man was found cooking in a pot. They castrate the boys that they capture and use them as servants until they are men. Then, when they want to make a feast, they kill and eat them, for they say the flesh of boys and women is not good to eat. Three of these boys fled to us, and all three were castrated.”

-Christopher Columbus, Columbus’ Narrative of the 2nd Voyage in The Four Voyages

Note: The Spanish and their native allies eventually exterminated the barbaric tribe.

 

“You ask of my companions. Hills, Sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell…” - Emily Dickinson

 

"He caught glimpses of everything, but saw nothing." - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

 

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - Vince Lombardi

 

thats a hella long quote

 

"Nothing in the world is permanent and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it..." - W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge

 

You're only as good as your last haircut. - Fran Lebowitz