Quote of the Day

April 30, 2007

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage “coaches” ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman


Quote of the Day – Funny Quotes

April 29, 2007

Quote of the Day – Funny Quotes

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. 
- W. C. Fields 1879-1946, American Actor

Funny Jokes


Quote of the Day

April 28, 2007

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. 
- Dorothy Day 1897-1980, American Religious Leader


Quote of the Day

April 27, 2007

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. 
- Sir William Temple 1628-1699, British Diplomat, Essayist


Quote of the Day

April 26, 2007

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. 
- James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author


Quote of the Day – Writer’s Block

April 25, 2007

Quote of the Day – Writer’s Block

I don’t believe in writer’s block. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?”
-Philip Pullman


Quote of the Day

April 24, 2007

Quote of the Day

You are not the momentary whim of a careless creator experimenting in the laboratory of life… You were made with a purpose.
- Og Mandino in “The Greatest Miracle in the World”


Quote of the Day – Love and Skill

April 23, 2007

Quote of the Day – Famous Quotes – Love and Skill

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist


Famous Quotes – Successful Effort

April 22, 2007

Famous Quotes – Successful Effort

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

– John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist


Quote of the Day – Great Effort

April 21, 2007

Quote of the Day – Famous Quotes – Great Effort

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
- John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist