19 August

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
Artemus Ward

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
G. K. Chesterton

18 August

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Ron Nesen

I hate women because they always know where things are.
James Thurber

17 August

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
Jef Mallett, Frazz

16 August

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie

15 August

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

14 August

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave Barry

13 August

I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Stephen Leacock

12 August

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
Miss Piggy

11 August

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Rita Rudner
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Quentin Crisp

10 August

Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

09 August

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Emo Phillips

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf

08 August

And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.
Stan Dunn

Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
Blore's Razor

07 August

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
Evan Davis

Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso

06 August

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Jonathan Winters

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Russell Baker

05 August

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Groucho Marx

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter

04 August

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
Douglas Adams

03 August Quote of the Day

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
by Paul Tournier


There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
by Victor Hugo