Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."

        - Walt Whitman

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

        - Mark Twain

"That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose."

        - Richard Whately

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

        - Charles Caleb Colton

"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."

        - Claude Bernard

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

        - George Washington Carver

"It's not dying for faith that's so hard, but living up to it."

        - William Makepeace Thackery

"The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it."

        - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

        - Calvin Coolidge

"I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog."

        - Wendy Liebman

"A date is a job interview that lasts all night. The only difference between a date and a job interview is that there are not many job interviews where there's a chance you'll end up naked at the end of it."

        - Jerry Seinfeld

"What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."

        - Cindy Garner

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

        - Booker T. Washington

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

        - Winston Churchill

"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."

        - Herodotus

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."

        - William Shakespeare

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

        - Blaise Pascal

"Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness."

        - Ouida

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

        - John Burroughs

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

        - H.L. Mencken

"We should keep so close to the facts that we never have to remember the second time what we said the first time."

        - F. Marion Smith

"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."

        - Benjamin Franklin

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations."

        - Elton Trueblood

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."

        - Victor Hugo

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.  Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

        - Cicero

"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."

        - Peter F. Drucker

"It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done."

        - Virginia Woolf

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost."

        - Lloyd Douglas

"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father."

        - Austin O'Malley

"Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad."

        - William Rounseville Alger

"Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success.  Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies."

        - Lord Chesterfield