daily quote

"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for." - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

"I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check."-M.C. Escher

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind." - William Butler Yeats

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military." -William S. Burroughs

​Note: Mr. Burroughs shot his wife in the head playing "William Tell" while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates

"Beware the fury of a patient man." - John Dryden

"One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen." - Philip Wylie note to criminal Gov. Scott

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." - James Thurber
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I must confess I like quotes that just make me say "yes!", rather than ones I have to ruminate over. This is one of the latter ones. Maybe I'm smarter than some of these guys...

I must confess I like quotes that just make me say "yes!", rather than ones I have to ruminate over. This is one of the latter ones. Maybe I'm smarter than some of these guys...

No, I think Thurber was just really high at the time.

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." - Roger Babson

Yeah, that's a quote I can get into. Does that mean Roger Babson wasn't high when he said it, or that we were on the same substance?

“I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong,
especially after what he achieved, winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs.
When I am on drugs, I can't even find my bike."
-- Willie Nelson

"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant." - Charles de Gaulle

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." - Thomas Jefferson

Yes...I concur (damn,I almost had it).

“Whenever you are angry, you can be sure that you have formed a special relationship that the Ego has blessed, for anger is its blessing. Anger takes many forms, but it cannot long deceive those who will learn that love brings no guilt at all, and what brings guilt cannot be love and must be anger. All anger is nothing more than an attempt to make someone feel guilty, and this attempt is the only basis the Ego accepts for special relationships. Guilt is the only need the Ego has, and as long as you identify with the Ego, guilt will remain attractive to you.” - Helen Schucman

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles

I thought what you leave behind are miss-matched socks in the dryer...

Sorry, Bob, I really liked the latter one. The former one took too much rumination.

I always thought what you leave behind is a child.