Quote of the Day -- Roald Dahl

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

-- Roald Dahl

Quote of the Day -- Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day -- John Adams

Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never. 

-- John Adams

Quote of the Day -- Oscar Wilde

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

-- Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Day -- Goethe

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goether

Quote of the Day -- Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

Quote of the Day -- Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.

-- Yogi Berra

Quote of the Day -- Mortimer Adler

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

-- Mortimer Adler

Quote of the Day -- Neil Young

It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

-- Neil Young

Quote of the Day --- Harriet Lewis

When we leave home with expectations, the world doesn't always meet them—but sometimes, it exceeds them in surprising ways. 

-- Harriet Lewis