User:Noahcs/QOTD/Full List

An archive of Noahcs' Quotes of the day.

November

 * 22nd

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.


 * ~ Thomas Jefferson


 * 27th

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.


 * &#8213; Jean Paul Richter


 * 28th

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.


 * &#8213; Franklin D. Roosevelt


 * 29th

The skies they were ashen and sober;

The leaves they were crisped and sere-

The leaves they were withering and sere;

It was night in the lonesome October

Of my most immemorial year;


 * &#8213; Edgar Allen Poe, (Ulalume)


 * 30th

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.


 * &#8213; William Shakespeare, (Hamlet, Act III, Sc. 1)

December

 * 1st

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell my children that, they just about throw up.


 * &#8213; Barbara Bush


 * 2nd

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.


 * &#8213; William Ralph Inge


 * 3rd

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.


 * &#8213; Henry David Thoreau (Sept. 1851)


 * 4th

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.


 * &#8213; Robert Orben


 * 5th

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.


 * &#8213; Robert Benchley


 * 6th

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.


 * &#8213; Arlo Guthrie


 * 7th

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.


 * &#8213; Robert F. Kennedy


 * 8th

You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.


 * &#8213; Hubert H. Humphrey

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 * 9th


 * 10th

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.


 * &#8213; Carol Burnett


 * 11th

You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France, I don't. I think that's old Europe. You look at vast numbers of other countries in Europe. They're not with France and Germany on this. They're with the United States.


 * &#8213; Former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (22 January 2003)


 * 12th

Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.


 * &#8213; G. Gordon Liddy


 * 13th

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.


 * &#8213; Julia Child


 * 14th

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable;

but when the truth entails tremendous ruin,

To speak dishonorably is pardonable.


 * &#8213; Sophocles (Creusa)


 * 15th

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.


 * &#8213; H. L. Mencken


 * 16th

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.


 * &#8213; Doris Lessing


 * 17th

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image


 * &#8213; Steven Hawking


 * 18th

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.


 * &#8213; Martha Stewart, quoted in Harper's Bazaar 


 * 19th

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 * 20th

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.


 * &#8213; Mark Twain


 * 21st

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.


 * &#8213; Gary Allan


 * 22nd

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.


 * &#8213; Calvin Coolidge (30th US President)