QOTD category archive

Francis Bacon:

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Abigail Adams, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Jim Backus:

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

Jacob Riis:

The slum is the measure of civilization.

Carl van Doren:

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Eric Hoffer:

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

Hanlon:

I’m genuinely disturbed by how certain people will instantly leap to the support of foreign protesters while cheering the abuse of domestic ones.

Albert Einstein, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.

Alfred Hitchcock:

I’m not against the police; I’m just afraid of them.

Robert Louis Stevenson, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

William Blake, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

Indira Gandhi, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Edith Sitwell:

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Admiral Rickover:

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.

Aside:

QOTD was on break yesterday, recovering from guard duty over Thanksgiving.

Salvador Dali:

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.</blockquote>

November 27, 2011 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD | Bookmark this post

Erma Bombeck:

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Irv Kupcinet:

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

I’m taking a break for a couple of days; QOTD will keep an eye on things.

In the meantime,

Remember Summer

Click for a larger image.

November 24, 2011 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD | Bookmark this post

Algernon Charles Swinburne:

From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Oscar Levant:

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.</blockquote>

November 23, 2011 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD | Bookmark this post