Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection."

        - Frank Moore Colby

"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."

        - Dr. Benjamin Spock

"Segregation is the offspring of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."

        - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work."

        - John G. Pollard

"When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement."

        - Leon Trotsky

"Fools grow without watering."

        - Thomas Fuller

"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time: it's ten to one if they hang long together."

        - Douglas Jerrold

"The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where imposters will find imprudence."

        - Charles Caleb Colton

"We are not free; it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then."

        - Ed Howe

"Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day."

        - Chamfort

"The vitality of thought is an adventure. Ideas won't keep.  Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it."

        - Alfred North Whitehead

"You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours."

        - Edward S. Martin

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive."

        - Alfred North Whitehead

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

        - Thomas Carlyle

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it."

        - George Moore

"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."

        - Stephen Crane

"Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow."

        - Romain Rolland

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

        - Winston Churchill

"Tyrants always have some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

        - Voltaire

"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."

        - Jules Renard

"A place for everything, everything in it's place."

        - Benjamin Franklin

"By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.  By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed."

        - Robert S. Hillyer

"It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you should drop gently to sleep.  The good is to come, not past; the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone."

        - Leigh Hunt

"There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity."

        - Johann Kaspar Lavater

"Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone."

        - Thomas De Quincey

"I voted for the Democrats because I didn't like the way the Republicans were running the country. Which is turning out to be like shooting yourself in the head to stop your headache."

        - Jack Mayberry