Gagler's Quote of the Day

May 1999 Past Mailings to our Free Mailing List

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

        - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

        - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune."

        - Unknown

"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."

        - Orison S. Marder

"Better a thousand times to go down fighting than to dip your colors to dishonorable compromise."

        - Woodrow Wilson

"Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved when mediocre women occupy high positions."

        - Francois Giroud

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

        - James Thurber

"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours."

        - J.B. Priestley

"Be part of the answer, not part of the problem."

        - Buell Gallagher

"What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity."

        - Anthony Crosland

"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation."

        - Farmer's Almanac, 1966

"If presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country."

        - Mel Brooks

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves."

        - Arthur P. Stanley

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."

        - William Blake

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughtest weather."

        - Washington Irving

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

        - Aristotle

"Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."

        - Cicero

"Life is worth living, but only if we avoid the amusements of grown-up people."

        - Robert Lynd

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

        - Michel de Montaigne

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

        - John Dryden

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

        - Michel de Montaigne

"Everyone has ancestors and it is only a question of going back far enough to find a good one."

        - Howard Kenneth Nixon

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

        - Heywood Broun

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

        - Frank Lloyd Wright

"The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed."

        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."

        - Pablo Picasso

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%."

        - Andrew Carnegie

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as you please."

        - Mark Twain

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."

        - Benjamin Franklin

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."

        - William Wordsworth

"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it.  After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing."

        - Dwight D. Eisenhower