Quote of the Day

"Music is essentially useless, as life is."
- George Santayana

"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be."
- William Hazlitt

"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses."
- Margaret Millar

"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
- Buck Henry

"A poem is no place for an idea."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
- H. H. Williams

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
- Bertrand Russell

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
- Vincent Van Gogh

"The night has a thousand eyes, and the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies with the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, and the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies when love is done."
- Francis William Bourdillon

"The stars hang bright above, silent, as if they watched the sleeping earth."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- Oscar Wilde

"Expecting everyone to like you is unrealistic. Count the stars in the sky and ask yourself how many light the earth. Yet that one star is enough to warm the entire world."
- Ray Messer Jr.

"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'"
- Frederick L Collins

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
- Will Rogers

"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping."
- Kenneth Tynan

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
- Samuel Butler

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas H. Huxley

"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."
- Cyril Connolly