Category: Quote of the Day

“There’s no such thing as a foolproof system, because fools are too ingenious.” – Wernher von Braun

“What is more important is that I don’t know how I have survived. I don’t know a word which could express it better but this was more than a narrow escape… I had a will to live and God had mercy on me.” – Doctor Stephen Kaddu Ssesanga, survivor of the December´s 2007 Ebola outbreak in Uganda

“Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel’s as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion.” – Robert Burns

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.” – Ecclesiastes 9-10

“Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Expediency asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popular? But conscience asks, Is it right?” – William Morley Punshon

“I don´t mind being called tough, because in this racket it´s the tough guys who lead the survivors” – General Curtis LeMay

[Two men are fencing in a duel to the death] Inigo Montoya: You are wonderful! Man in Black: Thank you; I’ve worked hard to become so. Inigo Montoya: I admit it, you are better than I am. Man in Black: Then why are you smiling? Inigo Montoya: Because I know something you don’t know. Man in Black: And what is that? Inigo Montoya: I… am not left-handed! [Moves his sword to his right hand and gains an advantage] Man in Black: You are amazing! Inigo Montoya: I ought to be, after 20 years. Man in Black: Oh, there’s something I …

“Of every One-Hundred men, Ten shouldn’t even be there, Eighty are nothing but targets, Nine are real fighters… We are lucky to have them…They make the battle, Ah, but the One, One of them is a Warrior… and He will bring the others back.” – Heraclitus (circa 500 BC)

“Law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.” – Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: Some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewig

“One meets one’s destiny often in the road one takes to avoid it.” – French Proverb

“I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.” – Clint Eastwood

“Yesterday, December Seventh, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleagues delivered to the Secretary of State a formal reply to a …

“Many a false step is made standing still.” – Pattie Labelle