Category: Quote of the Day

“Cows make excellent lawnmowers, but their exhaust systems will ruin a good game of croquet.” – Dirk van Loon, in “The Family Cow”

“My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement.” – Meg Ryan as Patricia in the movie Joe Versus the Volcano (Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley)

“…the afternoon of April 19, [1943] two boys climbed up on the roof of the headquarters of the Jewish Resistance there and raised two flags: the red-and-white Polish flag and the blue-and-white banner of the ZZW (blue and white are the colors of the Flag of Israel today). These flags were well-seen from the Warsaw streets, and the Jews managed to hold off the Germans for four entire days in their attempts to remove them. Stroop recalled: ‘The matter of the flags was of great political and moral importance. It reminded hundreds of thousands of the Polish cause, it excited …

“Last, but by no means least, courage—moral courage, the courage of one’s convictions, the courage to see things through. The world; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.  It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.” – General Douglas MacArthur

“Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food, [and] to the young ravens which cry.” – Psalm 147:7-9 (KJV)

“[There is] treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.” – Proverbs 21:20 (KJV)

“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not …

"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute." – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

"The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away." – John S. Coleman

"If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." – George Washington

“The economy has already imploded and is now reinflated with volatile hydrogen-like fiat, just waiting for the right spark to bring the whole zeppelin crashing down in flames.” – Giordano Bruno

“O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me. Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause. Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou [art] the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they [have been] ever of old. – Psalm 25:2-6 (KJV)

“God [is] our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea.” – Psalm 46:2 (KJV)

“All the prophets of doom Can always find room In a world full of worry and fear Tips, cigarettes, And chemistry sets And Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer So I’m goin’ back To my little ol’ shack And drink me a bottle of wine That was mis en bouteille Before my birthday And have me a fantastic time! Rain on a tin roof sounds like a drum We’re marchin’ for freedom today … hey! Turn on your headlights and sound your horn If people get in the way” – Excerpted lyrics from The “Protest Song” parody of Bob Dylan.

“I wonder,” [Ashley Wilkes] said.  “I wonder not only what will become of us at Tara but what will become of everybody in the South.”   [Scarlett O’Hara] felt like snapping out abruptly: “To h*ll with everybody in the South!  What about us?” but she remained silent because the tired feeling was back on her more strongly than ever.  Ashley wasn’t being any help at all. [Ashley continued] “In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up.  The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed …