Thought for the Day

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
:: Bagdikian's Observation

Quote of the Day

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
:: Confucius

Quote of the Day

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
:: Winston Churchill

Summary of a Bailout

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
:: Judge Gideon J. Tucker

Did I Say That?

I didn't really say everything I said.
:: Yogi Berra

Thought for the Day

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
:: John Ciardi

Quote of the Day

I fear you will not reach Mecca, oh Nomad! For the road you are following leads to Turkestan.
:: Ibn El-Arabi

Lip Service

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
:: Jerry Seinfeld

Quote of the Day

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
:: Francis Bacon

Quote of the Day

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
:: George Santayana

Thought for the Day

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
:: John Adams

Quote of the Day

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
:: Tom Lehrer

Quote of the Day

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
:: Aristophanes

Quote of the Day

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day

He was a wise man who invented beer.
:: Plato

Quote of the Day

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
:: Francis Bacon

Quote of the Day

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incomprehensible.
:: Adlai Stevenson

Quote of the Day

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
:: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
:: George Santayana

Quote of the Day

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
:: Albert Einstein