Gagler's Quote of the Day

February 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

"Drink to me."

        - Last words of Pablo Picasso

"The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great."

        - G.K. Chesterton

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

        - R.W. Emerson

"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

        - Benjamin Franklin

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."

        - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Procrastination is the thief of time."

        - Edward Young

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

        - Joseph Addison

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possess one."

        - Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe

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

        - Blaise Pascal

"She didn't know it couldn't be done so she went ahead and did it."

        - Mary's Almanac

"Fashions fade - style is eternal."

        - Yves Saint Laurent

"It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything."

        - Rene Coty

"A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops."

        - Henry Adams

"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

        - Mary's Almanac

"If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to resign.  I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, how do I reload this damn thing?"

        - Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX)

"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."

        - Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."

        - La Rochefoucauld

"You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun."

        - Al Capone

"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky."

        - Solomon Short

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

        - George Washington

"If you have one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday, you're bound to find yourself pissing on today."

        - Anonymous

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

        - Ernest Hemingway

Mariah Carey was one of the first celebrities to comment on the death of the King of Jordan. Mariah told CNN, "I'm inconsolable at the present time. I was a very good friend of Jordan, he was probably the greatest basketball player this country has ever seen, we will never see his like again."

When told by reporters that it was King Hussein of Jordan who had died and not Michael Jordan, Mariah was then led away by her security in a state of "confusion." (USA Today 2-8-99)

"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."

        - Dan Rather

"I should like to see these profound words inscribed on the threshold of all the temples of science: 'The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.'"

        - Louis Pasteur

"Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind."

        - Kay Ingram

"Hope is a good Breakfast, but it is a poor dinner."

        - Francis Bacon

"Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters."

        - Ross Presser