Your Quote of the Day

[JustKelli]

The two most important days in a person's life is the day you were born and the day you find out why

-- Mark Twain

[pepo-pepo]

"Tish, that's French!" ~ Gomez Addams

[Reclaimed_A1]

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

[pockets]

"There is one matter in which many democracies have been unsuccessful, and that is the control of the police. Given a police force which is corrupt and unscrupulous, and judges who are not anxious to discover its crimes, it is possible for ordinary citizens to find themselves at the mercy of a powerful organization which, just because it is supposed to enforce the law, has exceptional facilities for acting illegally. I think this is a danger which is much too little realized in many countries." - Bertrand Russell

[Rick Sanchez]

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell

[DoctorNo]

"It is impossible to describe Bertrand Russell except by saying that he looks like the Mad Hatter."
— Norbert Wiener

[Reclaimed_A1]

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone

[Reclaimed_A1]

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Mark Twain

[Tallifer]

"You cant abdicate and eat it"

-Wallace Simpson (for non English readers it's a phonetic play on words of the phrase 'you cant have your cake and eat it' , meaning you cant have a situation both ways. Edward VII gave up the throne to marry her (he abdicated))

[BadCompany5150]

Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me."

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity