Pablo Picasso

via Quotes of the Day on 8/5/09
"Everything you can imagine is real."

Laurence J. Peter

via Quotes of the Day on 7/24/09
"Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret."

M. Cartmill

via Quotes of the Day on 7/18/09
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."

Edith Sitwell

via Quotes of the Day on 6/27/09
"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented."

Don Marquis

via Quotes of the Day on 6/18/09
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'"

William H. Borah

via Quotes of the Day on 6/16/09
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."

Plato

via Quotes of the Day on 6/13/09
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

W. C. Fields

via Quotes of the Day on 6/13/09
"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."

J. Frank Dobie

via Quotes of the Day on 6/12/09
"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. "

Henry Kissinger

via Quotes of the Day on 5/30/09
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

H. L. Mencken

via Quotes of the Day on 5/28/09
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."

Mark Twain

via Quotes of the Day on 5/26/09
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Edward R. Murrow

via Quotes of the Day on 5/24/09
"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."

Mark Twain

via Quotes of the Day on 5/16/09
"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it."

Oscar Wilde

via Quotes of the Day on 5/12/09
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Groucho Marx

via Quotes of the Day on 5/6/09
"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."

Thomas Pickering

via Quotes of the Day on 5/3/09
"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."

Peter McWilliams

via Quotes of the Day on 4/30/09
"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."

R. D. Laing

via Quotes of the Day on 4/28/09
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."

R. A. Butler

via Quotes of the Day on 4/23/09
"In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves."