Quote of the Day

"A man has only one escape from his old self - to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes". - Clare Boothe Luce

 

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they'll feel all day."

-Frank Sinatra

 

The fact that people can't eat breakfast may show something about their family environment.

KUNIO KITAMURA,
executive director of the Japan Family Planning Association, which released a recent study showing that young teens in Japan who skip breakfast have sex at an earlier age than those who start the day with a proper meal

 

There is no such thing as precision strike you have glass, brick, shrapnel flying into people's homes.

EWA JASIEWICZ,
volunteer with the Free Gaza Movement, on the Israeli air raids in densely populated Gaza on Dec. 27 that have killed nearly 300 people

 

Retailers went from 'Ho-ho' to 'Uh-oh' to 'Oh-no.'

MARY DELK,
a director in the retail practice at Deloitte LLP, on the bleak holiday sales despite retailers' price-slashing efforts

 

You didn't hand it out to younger guys, but it could be a silver bullet to make connections to the older ones.

RETIRED CIA OPERATIVE,
on the agency's giving gifts of Viagra to gain support with men in remote areas of Afghanistan where the U.S. is fighting insurgents

 

You've got to take into account the convenience of turning up your thermostat vs. having 2 tons of coal to shovel.

KYLE BUCK
of Sugarloaf, Pa., on the economic advantages of using coal to heat a home

 

Sex in [the U.K.] is not the same as sex in Dubai.

VINCE ACORS,
a British businessman jailed in Dubai after being convicted for having sex on a beach. In his first statement since returning to the U.K., he admitted his naiveté of Muslim law but continued to deny that he and his female companion actually had sex

 

man go to bed with ichy butt wake up with smelly finger.---Confucius

 

“What the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?”-Nathan Fillion-firefly

 

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

T.S. Eliot

 

I've asked authorities to be uncompromising with arsonists.

NICOLAS SARKOZY,
President of France, after close to 1,100 cars were set on fire by New Year's Eve revelers

 

It's amazingly inconvenient. But the flip side of the inconvenience is death.

DAVID MALHAM,
of the Illinois chapter of MADD, on ignition interlocks that keep car engines from starting until an alcohol detector proves the driver's sober. Convicted drunk drivers will have to install the gadgets under new laws taking effect in six states this week

 

Folks are looking at their closets as a source of revenue.

LIZ PIERCE,
a senior analyst with Roth Capital Partners, on resale and thrift stores profiting from the recession

 

The Zionists should know that Gaza will become their graveyard.

ALI LARIJANI,
speaker of Iran's parliament, on Israel's ground assault on Hamas militants

 

"Lotta people go through life doing things badly. Racing's important to men who do it well. When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting."
-- Steve McQueen, Le Mans 1971

 

Streaming video from the Internet and other means of direct digital delivery are going to put optical formats out of business entirely over the next few years.

ROGER KAY,
U.S consultant, predicting that the increasing availability of HD movies and TV programs online will make DVD and Blu-ray video discs obsolete

 

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
- Anatole Broyard

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
- Robertson Davies

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
- Charles Peters

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.
- Anonymous

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
- Isaac Newton

 

There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.

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