Category: Quote of the Day

“History is a vast early warning system” – Norman Cousins

“Murphy’s Law: “If there’s more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way.” – Capt. Edward A. Murphy, Jr., Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, circa 1949

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." – Henry Cate, VII

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies." – Groucho Marx

"The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of …

"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." – T.S. Eliot

"Politicians and diapers should be changed often, and for the same reason." – Mark Twain

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." – Otto von Bismarck

A clown is funny in the circus ring, but what would be the normal reaction to opening a door at midnight and finding the same clown standing there in the moonlight?" – Lon Chaney, Sr.

"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." – Archibald McLeish

"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." – Ayn Rand

“Mystery is the source of all true art and science.” – Masado Banzai (as quoted in Pinky Carruthers’ Unknown Facts)

“Using a television without an appropriate licence is a criminal offence. Every day we catch an average of 1,200 people using a TV without a licence. There is no valid excuse for using a television and not having a TV Licence, but some people still try – sometimes with the most ridiculous stories ever heard. Our detection equipment will track down your TV. The fact that our enquiry officers are now so well equipped with the latest technology means that there is virtually no way to avoid detection.” – from the official website of the British Television Licensing Authority, May …

"Whistling in the dark does not bring light." – German social philosopher Erich Fromm

"If we find our government in all its branches rushing headlong… into the arms of monarchy, if we find them violating our dearest rights, the trial by jury, the freedom of the press, the freedom of opinion, civil or religious, or opening on our peace of mind or personal safety the sluices of terrorism, if we see them raising standing armies, when the absence of all other danger points to these as the sole objects on which they are to be employed, then indeed let us withdraw and call the nation to its tents. But while our functionaries are wise, …