Gagler's Quote of the Day

April 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

"Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself."

        - Rosanne

"The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use."

        - George A. Dorsey

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

        - Elbert Hubbard

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them?"

        - Abraham Lincoln

"A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself."

        - Benjamin Disraeli

"Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."

        - Ross McDonald

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

        - Sir Edmund Hillary

"Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too."

        - Lichty & Wagner

"One man's folly is another man's wife."

        - Helen Rowland

"A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."

        - James Reston

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests."

        - John Stuart Mill

"It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself."

        - Thomas Paine

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

        - Mark Twain

"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

        - Winston Churchill

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

        - Oscar Wilde

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

        - Bill Vaughan

"Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable."

        - Kin Hubbard

"A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich."

        - David Frost

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100 percent mortality rate."

        - R.D. Laing   

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

        - Ann Landers

"Where e're ye be, let your wind bla' free"

        - Bobby Burns

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."

        - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

"A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it."

        - Josh Billings

"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."

        - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss."

        - Thomas Carlyle

"Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

        - Winston Churchill

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"

        - Benjamin Franklin

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

        - James Oppenheim

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."

        - Ernest Hemingway