Nathaniel Bacon - January 2, 1647

"The poverty of the country is such that all the power and sway has got into the hands of the rich, who by extortious advantages, having the common people in their debt, have always curbed and oppressed them in all manner of ways."

Marcus Tullius Cicero - January 3, 106 bc

“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?”

Louis Braille - January 4, 1809

"Yesterday was one of the greatest and most beautiful days of my life. I tasted the greatest joys. God was pleased to hold before my eyes the dazzling splendors of eternal hope. After that, doesn't it seem that nothing more could keep me bound to the earth?"

George Reeves - January 5, 1914

“Knock the 't' off the 'can't'”

Jeanne d'Arc - January 6, 1412

“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”

Butterfly McQueen - January 7, 1911

“Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. You have no idea how hard it is for black actors, but things change, things blossom in time.”

Milton Hines - January 8, 1926

"Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you."

Richard Milhous Nixon - January 9, 1913

“Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?”

Ethan Allen - January 10, 1738

“In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.”

Ezra Cornell - January 11, 1807

“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

"I didn't want that on my birthday." - thedoc's brother 1-11-'43

Edmund Burke - January 12, 1729

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

Horatio Alger - January 13, 1834

"No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls."

William Bendix - January 14, 1906

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Jean Baptiste Moliere - January 15, 1622

“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”

Jay Hanna Dean - 16 January, 1910

“Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.”

Anton Chekov - January 17, 1860

“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'”

Alan Alexander Milne - January 18, 1882

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

Robert E. Lee - January 19, 1807

“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.”

Theobald Wolfe Tone - January 20, 1763

"Strum, strum and be hanged"

Aristotelis Savalas - January 21, 1922

“We're all born bald, baby.”

Sir Francis Bacon - January 22, 1561

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

John Hancock - January 23, 1737

“There, I guess King George will be able to read that."

"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Is one of my favorite quotes/poems, next to the one in my sig.

Also, I'm not really saying stop, just saying these dang daily quotes are annoying because when I scan whats new I always see daily quotes in philosophy. So I don't know if any new topics came up. Sure its just a click away but I'm lazy man!

Your next quote (I challenge thee!) should have something to do with laziness.

Frederick the Great of Prussia - January 24, 1712

“The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.”

warrrreagl didn't die did he?

not yet...

Robert Boyle - January 25, 1627

"For a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, P [pressure] and V [volume] are inversely proportional."

Douglas MacArthur - January 26, 1880

"I shall return."

Lewis Carroll - January 27, 1832

“"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."”

Sir Henry Morton Stanley - January 28, 1841

“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

Thomas Paine - January 29, 1737

“These are the times that try men's souls.”

"Now there's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than the tears of a clown, when there's no one around" - Smokie

William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. was born February 19, 1940

Anton Chekhov - January 30, 1860

“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'”

... oh snap...

Ernie Banks - January 31, 1931

“It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!”

Also on this day -Norman Mailer - January 31, 1923

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."

S. J. Perelman - February 1, 1904

“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring."

Ayn Rand - February 2, 1905

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.”

Horace Greeley - February 3, 1811

“I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.”

Mark Hopkins - February 4, 1802

“Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.”

Belle Starr - February 5, 1848

"Shed not for her the bitter tear
Nor give the heart to vain regret
Tis but the casket that lies here
The gem that filled it sparkles yet."

Mamie Van Doren - February 6, 1933

"It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen."

Charles Dickens - February 7, 1812

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth”

William Tecumseh Sherman - February 8, 1820

“War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say give them all they want.”

Rose Louise Hovick - February (some say January) 9, 1911

“Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.”

James Francis Durante - February 10, 1893

“Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!”

Leslie Nielsen - February 11, 1926

"I am serious...and don't call me Shirley!"

Charles Darwin - February 12, 1809

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

Woody Hayes - February 13, 1913

“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”

Benjamin Kubelsky - February 14, 1894

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

Susan B. Anthony - February 15, 1820

“Independence is happiness.”

Edgar Bergen - February 16, 1903

“Funny, nothing ever happens nowadays.”

Thomas Robert Malthus - February 17, 1766

“The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity.”

Helen Gurley Brown - February 18, 1922

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

David Garrick - February 19, 1717

“The boughs that bear most hang lowest.”

William Prescott - February 20, 1726

"Don't fire until you see the white's of their eyes."

Alice Freeman Palmer - February 21, 1855

"For I remember it is Easter morn, And life and love and peace are all new born."

George Washington - February 22, 1732

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

Samuel Pepys - Februeary 23, 1633

“Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”

George Harrison - February 24, 1943

"I only learned recently after all these years that the date and time of my own birth have always been off by one calendar day and about a half hour on the clock."

Bobby Riggs - February 25, 1918

“Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.”

great quotes! Keep em coming!

the idea is to contribute, not just "drive-by" and fire a one-liner...

Jackie Gleason - February 26, 1916

“How sweet it is!”

John Steinbeck - February 27, 1902

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”

Linus Pauling - February 28, 1901

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

William Gaines - March 1, 1922

"Fools rush in and get the best seats."

Tom Wolfe - March 2, 1931

“If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.”

Matthew Ridgway - March 3, 1895

"No ground gained was ever relinquished."

Knute Rockne - March 4, 1888

“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”

Rex Harrison - March 5, 1908

“Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.”

Lou Costello - March 6, 1906

“I went and looked out my door and he's got a big old brick banging and smashing my windshield in and I opened my door and yelled at him, 'hey!' but he just looked crazy so I slammed the door and locked it, called 9-1-1 and I went for my gun.”

Luther Burbank - March 7, 1849

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.”

Kenneth Grahame - March 8, 1859

“The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr Toad.”

Amerigo Vespucci - March 9, 1454

“Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... we may rightly call a New World...a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.”

Sharon Stone - March 10, 1958

“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.”

"If I asked you to spit in a cup then swallow it, Would you?"

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Lawrence Welk - March 11, 1903

“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”

Jack Kerouac - March 12, 1922

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

Joseph Priestley - March 13, 1733

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

David Byrne - March 14, 1952

"Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was. ..."

Jimmy Lee Swaggart - March 15, 1935

“If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.”

Henny Youngman - March 16, 1906

“Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"”

sorry, i didnt know:confused:

Singer/Pianist Nat "King" Cole March 17, 1919

"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."

Andrew Mellon - March 24, 1855

"Gentlemen prefer bonds.”

oops

Howard Cosell - March 25, 1918

“Sports is the toy department of human life.”

A. E. Housman - March 26, 1859

“Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.”

How true is that? The world at your fingertips with a cellphone, and not even a phone call.

Patty Smith Hill - March 27, 1868

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you."

Paul Whiteman - March 28, 1890

“Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.”

Sam Walton - March 29, 1918

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

Rolf Harris - March 30, 1930

“Tie me kangaroo down, sport.”

Rene Descartes - March 31, 1596

"Cogito, ergo sum."

Abraham Maslow - April 1, 1908

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”