Quotation of the day

"I don't feel good."

- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."

~Douglas Adams

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

- Irvin S. Cobb

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

- Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."

- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

"If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."

Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)

"What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

Joseph Chilton Pearce