Today's Quotes

I have always enjoyed words, the hearing of a tale, the telling, the putting on paper or their effect on society.


"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt." ~ G.K. Chesterton, author (1874-1936)

"The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips." ~ Heinrich Heine


"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference." ~ Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." ~ Isadora Duncan


"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does." ~ Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)

"Freedom is always and exclusively the freedom for the one who thinks differently." ~ Rosa Luxemburg

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." ~ Woody Allen, author actor, and filmmaker (1935- )


"I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." ~ Clarence (Seward) Darrow

"The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot." ~ Rolf Hochhuth


"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become, through your will, a general natural law." ~ Immanuel Kant

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ~ Socrates

"I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor and feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way." ~ Armetus Ward

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things." ~ Plato

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy -- for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~ Anatole France


"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening." ~ Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man." ~ Madame de Stael, writer (1766-1817)

"Freedom...is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self." ~ Iris Murdoch


"I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere." ~ Bobby Ann Mason

Quotes for Today

"Every revolutionary movement also liberates language." ~ Christa Wolf

"The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is ignorance." ~ Kurt Tucholsky

"The intellect is part of life--not its counterpart." ~ Kurt Tucholsky

"What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts." ~ Friedrich von Logau

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean." ~ David Searls

"The Holy Sprit intended to teach us in the Bible how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go." ~ Galileo

"A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

"It is far easier to blame someone than to take the time to understand the problem." ~ Dave Gurteen

"Time wears away error and polishes truth." ~ Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

"Marriage doesn't fail to meet the demands of people; people fail to meet the demands of marriage." ~ Dr. Mardy Grothe

"I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them. But valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss [of more men]. I bid you all an affectionate farewell." ~ General Robert E. Lee’s Last Order

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may; light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." ~ John Constable, painter (1776-1837)

"Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. " ~ Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

"It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean." ~ Karl Kraus

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all." ~ Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- )

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." ~ Thomas Mann

"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts." ~ Ella Fitzgerald

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.” ~ H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops" ~ Henry Adams

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." ~ George Orwell

Changing Light Bulbs in the SEC

At VANDERBILT, it takes two: one to change the bulb and one more to explain how they did it every bit as good as the bulbs changed at Harvard.

At GEORGIA, it takes two: one to change the bulb and one to phone an engineer at Georgia Tech for instructions.

At FLORIDA, it takes four: one to screw in the bulb and three to figure out how to get stoned off the old one.

At ALABAMA, it takes five: one to change it, three to reminisce about how The Bear would have done it, and one to throw the old bulb at an NCAA investigator.

At OLE MISS, it takes six: one to change it, two to mix the drinks and three to find the perfect J. Crew outfit to wear for the occasion.

At LSU, it takes seven, and each one gets credit for five semester hours.

At KENTUCKY, it takes eight: one to screw it in and seven to discuss how much brighter it seems to shine during basketball season.

At TENNESSEE, it takes ten: two to figure out how to screw it in, two to buy an orange lampshade, and six to phone a radio call-in show and talk about how much they hate Alabama.

At MISSISSIPPI STATE, it takes fifteen: one to screw in the bulb, two to buy the Skoal, and twelve to yell, “GO TO HELL, OLE MISS”.

At AUBURN, it takes one hundred: one to change it, forty-nine to talk about how they did it better than at Bama, and fifty to get drunk and roll toomer’s Corner when finished.

At SOUTH CAROLINA, it takes 80,000: one to screw it in and 79,999 to discuss how this finally will be the year that they have a decent football team.

At ARKANSAS: None. There is no electricity in Arkansas.

Ain't Life a...well you know!!

No Whining!

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." ~ George Orwell

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." ~ George Orwell

Who is to blame? Who cares any more? Anyone and Everyone who has been paying attention in the last several months knows that the Executive Branch of our government had plenty of time to get warrants even after the wiretapping started. However, they did not, period. The issue is not whether or not that they did it, we know they did; the issue is why didn't they follow through? It is because they thought none of us would care. They have us so brain-washed into believing that we are "at war with terror" that any thing they do is acceptable.

Yet if another administration was involved in the same tactics as this administration, the pundits that so whole-heartedly support this one would not only be outraged, but would be involved in a full scale impeachment process. So if this executive was only sleeping with the help and lying about it, not just having thousands of young American men and women killed in a foreign land, we could impeach him then. What constitutes an impeachable offense? A small sexual act, or a large one?

Libertarians whine about the Constitution not providing for taxes, yet they fail to read the document they claim to be upholding. The US Constitution allows Congress to enact taxes to support all forms of things. They just don't want to be the ones to pay those taxes.

Whine on, whine on, because the precedents you create now will come back to haunt you in case of a CHANGE!!

Closet, free-will progressives will revolt at the polls, slowly at first, locally, then at state level and eventually at a national level. The history of American politics is full of examples.

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink." ~ George Orwell