Today Quotes
-
Fear is a great motivator.Art Bell
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.Michael Landon
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.Ronal Reagan, 20 March 1981
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.Benjamin Franklin
Nice guys finish last.Leo Durocher, (attributed, see notes)
The beauty of daylight-saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
The goal of all life is death.Sigmund Freud
