quotes for today

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ~Author unknown, from a television commercial


A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton


Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary. ~Lynn White, Jr.


Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. ~Homer, Iliad


The adrenal gland has a very peculiar way of slowing down when it has been overtaxed and overburdened. It fails in the manner of a large dying star, which gets brighter and brighter before it burns out. ~Karilee and Richard Shames, Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?, 2005


There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism. ~Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay, 1923


An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it. ~Don Marquis


When I was a little kid, no older than that, I always used to wonder why nobody collected prayer cards like they collected baseball cards. Thousands of bucks for Honus Wagner and jack shit for Jesus. ~Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, The Sopranos, "Isabella," original airdate 28 March 1999, spoken by the character Corrado "Junior" Soprano


Television is simply automated daydreaming. ~Lee Loevinger


The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. ~Omar Bradley


I use the word "fat." I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight. There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat! ~George Carlin


Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. ~Seneca


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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects


Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?" ~John Stewart


Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up. ~Charles Sanders Peirce


Fear: False Evidence Appearing Real. ~Author Unknown


God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Saying