Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends."

        - Joseph Conrad

"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."

        - Confucius

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

        - Henry Ward Beecher

"The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening."

        - Kin Hubbard

"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married, too."

        - H.L. Mencken

"A bargain is...anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on."

        - Kin Hubbard

"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, and consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."

        - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak."

        - Jacques Benigne Bossuet

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

        - Emily Dickinson

"Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt."

        - Kin Hubbard

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."

        - Carl Sandburg

"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."

        - Orson Welles

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."

        - Mark Twain

"It is easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."

        - John Burroughs

"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."

        - Joseph Addison

"My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness."

        - Helen Keller

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."

        - G. K. Chesterton

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, 'Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.' The real fear should be of the opposite course."

        - Gail Sheehy

"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset."

        - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

        - Thomas A. Edison

"You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely going through the motions, even if those motions make us successful, or even if we have arranged to make those motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the quality of life.  We want to make the world work."

        - Werner Erhard

"If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances."

        - Julia Soul

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

        - Aesop

"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling."

        - Vincent Van Gogh

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

        - Lao Tzu

"We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit."

        - Aristotle

"For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and uses that in hand day by day -- shall be full to running over."

        - Edgar Cayce

"The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive."

        - O. A. Battista

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within."

        - Ramona L. Anderson

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact."

        - William James