Quote of the Day -- Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

-- Robert Benchley

Quote of the Day -- Charles Dickens

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

-- Charles Dickens

Quote of the Day -- Robert Brault

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

-- Robert Brault

 

Quote of the Day -- Albert Ellis

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

 -- Albert Ellis

Quote of the Day -- Bryna Nelson Patson

Truth be told, being a grandma is as close as we ever get to perfection. The ultimate warm sticky bun with plump raisins and nuts. Clouds nine, ten, and eleven. 

-- Bryna Nelson Patson

Quote of the Day -- Susan Moon

You can't take it with you.  And what you leave behind should be sorted into boxes and neatly labeled.  

-- Susan Moon

Quote of the Day -- Doug Larson

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

 -- Doug Larson

Quote of the Day -- Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

-- Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day -- Mark Twain

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

-- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day -- Orson Scott Card

It’s called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again. 

-- Orson Scott Card

Quote of the Day -- Anne Lamott

You can’t run alongside your grown children with sunscreen and ChapStick on their hero’s journey.

-- Anne Lamott

Quote of the Day -- Mark Twain

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. 

-- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day -- Warren Buffet

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

-- Warren Buffett

Quote of the Day -- Mark Twain

Why not go out on a limb?  That's where the fruit is.

-- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day -- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

A fall is an unintentional loss of balance causing one to make unexpected contact with the ground or floor.  

-- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 

(via Susan Moon, this is getting old)

Quote of the Day -- Anne Lamott

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. 

-- Anne Lamott

Quote of the Day -- Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

 – Winston S. Churchill

Quote of the Day -- Isaac Asimov

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. 

-- Isaac Asimov

Quote of the Day -- Ann Richards

Poor George, he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.  

-- Ann Richards

Quote of the Day -- Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. 

-- Douglas Adams