Archive for October, 2006

Doug Larson on Nature

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

- Doug Larson

Will Rogers on Sports

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

- Will Rogers

Aristotle on Equality

Monday, October 30th, 2006

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

Dick Gregory on History

Monday, October 30th, 2006

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

- Dick Gregory

A. C. Benson on Business

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

- A. C. Benson

Mitchell Kapor on Technology

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

- Mitchell Kapor

Harold MacMillan on Success

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.

- Harold MacMillan

Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Art

Friday, October 27th, 2006

All art is but imitation of nature.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Deng Xiaoping on Politics

Friday, October 27th, 2006

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

- Deng Xiaoping

Erma Bombeck on Nature

Thursday, October 26th, 2006

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother a moment’s anxiety, and was never a child.

- Erma Bombeck