QOTD: "This is a time to be together, and the truth is somewhere here / Within our love of people at the closing of the year." - Hans Zimmer

QOTD: "Still round the corner we may meet / A sudden tree or standing stone / That none have seen but we alone..." - J.R.R. Tolkien

QOTD: "Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations." - Antoine de St.-Exupéry

QOTD:"...contentment...the mood when life is good...happiness the sensation we experience when life suddenly gets better."-Desmond Morris

QOTD: "Eagles are not kindly birds. Some are cowardly and cruel." - J.R.R. Tolkien

MOTD: Liturgical Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, sung by my late father Jack Deltuvia (1934-2007): http://bit.ly/Uj4cw

QOTD:"A winter day! The feather silent snow / Thickens the air with strange delight and lays / A fairy carpet on the barren lea."-David Gray

QOTD: "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." - J.R.R. Tolkien

QOTD: "From lands that see the sun arise / To earth's remotest boundaries / Let every heart awake and sing!" - Eur. Trad.

QOTD: "Let the light return again and shine in the hearts of women and men." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "We are children of great promise / We dance the light out from the dark..." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Spirit that hears each one of us, / Hears all that is - / Listens, listens, hears us out - / Inspire us now!" - Barbara Deming

QOTD: "As I was disrobing I noticed a big bottle of massage oil sitting near the sink. It was labeled 'Nut Oil'". - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Set music free when you desire / Throw new boughs high upon the fire / Songs, like sparks, rise ever higher..." - Jane Peppler

QOTD: "So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive." - Audre Lorde

QOTD: "The mind of the beginner is empty...ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities." - Shunryu Suzuki

QOTD: "Americans worship logic, even when it's wrong, and deny intuition, even when it's right." - Gavin de Becker

QOTD:"...Beyond the shadows of time / I surrender my sorrows and stains on my soul / Reborn in the light of the world." - Sharon Knight

"I'm not technically a cyborg, but I'm working toward it." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God."-Steve Wozniak

QOTD: "...geeks...often have a lower tolerance to hypocrisy than many persons in the general population." - Lauren Weinstein

QOTD:"Every man...has received two educations:The first from his teachers;the second, more personal and important, from himself."-E. Gibbon

QOTD: "Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum." - Vegetius

QOTD: "We wait in the dark for the light to appear / Mother, give birth to our brother the Sun..." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "People multiply, / food does not. The good news is / there are wars and plagues." - David M. Bader / Thomas Malthus

QOTD: "Apparently there's an unwritten rule about showing a porpoise with his head in a lawyer's ass." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "And long may the Sons / Of Anacreon intwine / The Myrtle of Venus / With Bacchus's Vine." - Ralph Tomlinson

QOTD: "There's always some reason to feel not good enough..." - Sarah McLachlan

QOTD: "All you can do is try to know who your friends are / As you head off to the war..." - Regina Spektor

QOTD:"the material is leather,the seduction is beauty,the justification is honesty,the aim is ecstasy, the fantasy is death.."-Susan Sontag

QOTD: "I seek to cross the river / I seek to ride the serpent / I seek to bathe my tender toes in Wisdom." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "These days Christmas shopping is not just a sport, it's a spectator sport." - Drake Bennett

QOTD:"A silent h can be put anywhere you want...it is equally proper to spell the name Gandhi as...hGandi and even Gandhhhhhhi."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Possessions strike down one deficient in wisdom, / But not those seeking the beyond." - The Dhammapada

QOTD: "Pass the horn of plenty - give thanks for nature's bounty." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Terrorists are indeed a threat. But terrorists do not have their hands on our pants." - Al Lewis

QOTD:"If you put down the cell phone, your (Garden State) Parkway driving experience will be infinitely better."-Peter Genovese

QOTD: "Come to me, rest your head, I will give you life." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD:"Am I the only investor who looks at a company's record of staff reductions as an indicator of its incompetence?"-Dave Ingraham

QOTD: "Yes, I prance. There's nothing wrong with that." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Freedom is kind of a hobby wih me,and I have disposable income that I'll spend to get people more of it."-Penn Jilette

QOTD: "Cherry blossoms fall / at light speed through cuvred space-time / and land with a thud." - David M. Bader / Albert Einstein

QOTD: "By buying your ticket you gave up a lot of rights." - Unnamed Transportation Security Agency employee

QOTD: "Remember that no stranger may see or touch your private area,unless it's a government employee,then it's OK."-Brian Sodegren

QOTD: "Raise up your voice and let your songs be free and bold..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "A man swears to keep from crying, a woman cries to keep from swearing." - Edward E. Smith

QOTD: "If you had to design a dating website that matched people on just two criteria, what would those criteria be?" - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Would man but wake from out his haunted sleep, / Earth might be fair and all men glad and wise." - Clifford Bax

QOTD: "The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est / Pro patria mori." - Lt. Wilfred Owen, MC, KIA 4 Nov 1918

QOTD: "One's victories in battle cannot be repeated-they take their form in response to inexhaustibly changing circumstances." - Sun-tzu

QOTD: "The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you."-Robert Heinlein

QOTD: "Take your wisdom, run with it; / Take your wisdom, change." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "...this court will not interpret a statute to yield an absurd result." - Supreme Ct. of AR, Echols v. Arkansas

QOTD: "I am appalled at the low quality of spam lately. If someone is trying to scam me, I expect him to put some effort into it."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with." - W.C. Fields

QOTD: "Next Momus got up / With his risible Phiz / And swore with Apollo / He'd cheerfully join..." - Ralph Tomlinson

QOTD: "Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn't the promised land. Sometimes it's just New Jersey." - Jon Stewart

QOTD: "If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times." - Mark Twain

QOTD: "You can fool some of the people some of the time-and those are the ones you need to concentrate on."-Christopher Buckley

QOTD: "Now we're back to the beginning / It's just a feeling and no one knows yet..." - Regina Spektor

QOTD: "Death has come for the summertime / And to take the leaves of spring..." - Inkubus Sukkubus

QOTD: "I'll come back / When you call me / No need to say goodbye." - Regina Spektor

QOTD: "Shh, don't start giving the politicians ideas. They're not smart enough to understand sarcasm." - "oomatter"

QOTD: "By Zeus, Socrates! / It seems you're right again! / Time for your hemlock." - David M. Bader / Plato

QOTD: "Let your memories grow stronger and stronger / 'Til they're before your eyes..." - Regina Spektor

QOTD: "Beyond the gates, I see my father..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "... I see my beloved kin / Going back to the dawn of time..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Buddhism promises little but fulfills more, Christianity promises everything but fulfills nothing." - Friedrich Nietzsche

QOTD: "Unlike you, I love my job. I was a grim reaper until I started taking antidepressants." - Scott Adams

QOTD:"The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself."-Kathy Change

QOTD: "The people have the right to revolt." - Thomas Jefferson

QOTD: "An SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says, 'May I join you?'" - Anon.

QOTD: "God's busy. It's up to us." - Lilith Saintcrow

QOTD: "Hail to the Earth below and the lands beyond our eyes!" - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "A fool's rhetoric is deep and learned,/The laughing poet has run out of breath and died." - Ch?gyam Trungpa

QOTD: "I have to think it's wise to hide your torture-themed novelty toys when you're pursuing world peace."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace: but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!" - Patrick Henry

QOTD: "Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace

QOTD: "In a world of hate and bloodshed/In a world of lust and greed:/An economic change/Is the thing we need."-B. Weber

QOTD: "Congress recognized that it could not ban guns outright, so instead it overtaxed them." - Andrew Napolitano, JSC

QOTD: "Then there's da Vinci, for whom it required / Dressing in women's underwear to be inspired..." - Henry Phillips

QOTD: "Hail to the Queen of Heaven! Whose spiced lips bring life everlasting..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Old pond. Frog jumps in. / Repressed sexual desire, / clearly Oedipal." - David M. Bader / Sigmund Freud

QOTD: "The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Pick a star on the dark horizon / And follow the light / You’ll come back when its over / No need to say goodbye." - Regina Spektor

QOTD: "...residents reject...new taxes...& embrace budget cuts,(but) worry that the reductions would harm vital services."-Michael Fletcher

QOTD: "Every rolling word of the Constitution,and the bright,sharp,brave phrases of the bill of rights-they get me where I live."-Robert A. Heinlein

QOTD: "One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged." - Heinrich Heine

QOTD: "We are children of great promise / We are inheritors of magic spark..." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "The person who is suffering is to be treated with respect, for that person is the teacher of the one who gives aid."-Diane Wolkstein

QOTD:"Healthy employees are unproductive...we prefer employees who work hard and die before their pensions start paying out."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Giving is a practice and we need to give every day." - Cheng Yen

QOTD: "...we do not live, as the flowers/for a single year./For,through us,an immortal sap/rises through our limbs."-Ranier Maria Rilke

QOTD:"The inconvenient truth in drug policy is that Americans love drugs:alcohol,caffeine,marijuana,cocaine,and prescription..."-Bill Piper

"I take care not to hold mankind responsible for its mental disorders." - Friedrich Nietzsche

QOTD:""Let's give thanks for the bounty of the harvest / The barley King has bowed his head." - Sharon Knight"

QOTD: "A lot of stupid stuff is perfectly constitutional." - Antonin Scalia, J.

QOTD: "...my survival depends on hordes of clueless goobers electing competent leaders." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "The notion that i would eliminate,change,or alter your pension is not only a lie,but cannot be further from the truth."-Chris Christie

QOTD: "...the live nude dancing experience provided by Club 35 cannot be completely replicated in cyberspace."-Jose Fuentes, J.A.D.(NJ)

QOTD: "That's the danger of a 140-character communications forum. It can become the broken telephone game of the 21st century." - Bob Reid

QOTD: "Just because everything’s changing / Doesn’t mean it’s never been this way before..." - Regina Spektor

QOTD: "We burn with the power of a million stars / We turn with the cycles of the fertile Earth." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "The whole business of eroticism is to strike to the inmost core of the living being, so that the heart stands still." - Georges Bataille

QOTD: "10% of my workday is allocated to thwarting my cat's antiproductivity crusade." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Cherry blossoms fall / with Force equal to Mass times / Acceleration." - David M. Bader / Isaac Newton

QOTD: "...whoever cares about what's right can't afford to care about what's legal." - 'Rudd-O'

QOTD: "A thousand reasoned opinions are never equal to one case of diving in and finding out." - Robert A. Heinlein

QOTD: "Apple needs to add an 'ugly' checkbox to the App Store...Click the "Ugly" box and...see the whole collection."-Ed Bott

HOTD: Francis Scott Key, Esq., writes "The Defense of Fort M'Henry" http://bit.ly/fsk914

QOTD: "Sing for the ripening of the apples / Rejoice for the King and his bountiful wife." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Ch?gyam is spinning, watching the spinning/samsara; if there is no samsara/spinning, there is no Ch?gyam." - Ch?gyam Trungpa

QOTD: "All religions look equally ridiculous from the outside." - Robert A. Heinlein

QOTD: "It must apply to EVERYONE or it means NOTHING! Do you understand?" - Gene Roddenberry

QOTD: "Verbum caro, panem verum / Verbo carnem efficit: / Fitque sanguis Christi merum...Sola fides sufficit." - Thomas Aquinas

QOTD: "If a politician will lie about one thing, he or she will lie about anything." - Paul Mulshine

QOTD: "Help! My telepathy.dll can't connect, and I'm stuck in my own head!" - Cerulean Studios

QOTD: "May our work be blessed on the rising of breath / May our work be open to love." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "The problem of the last twenty years is that people think that 'liberal' and 'conservative' mean something." - Camille Paglia

QOTD: "I was a grim reaper until I started taking antidepressants." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture." - Allen Ginsberg

QOTD:"..strong belief without basis, while admittedly more comfortable than thinking, is not our way of doing things.." - Bobby Henderson

QOTD: "Voice, Fiddle, and Flute, / No longer be mute, / I'll lend you my name / And inspire you to boot!" - Ralph Tomlinson

QOTD: "Waiting for Eros / the dearest scion / of Earth and Heaven" - Sappho

QOTD: "The warming winds will soothe away our sorrows; / The wheel turns and brings us home again." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "The nakedness of woman is the work of God." - William Blake

QOTD: "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

QOTD:"Join in the folk song army/Guitars are the weapons we bring/To the fight against poverty,war & injustice/Ready;aim;sing!"-Tom Lehrer

QOTD: "Brave citizens used their right to bear arms to suppress a shooting at the University of Texas..." - Hon. Andrew Napolitano

QOTD: "From historic rulers / to the ancient Greeks / We're standing on the shoulders of freaks." - Henry Phillips

QOTD: "Stars round the fair moon / veil their own shining / when she's full on the earth / with the light of her silver" - Sappho

QOTD: "We dance in the heat of our hearts' desire / Open the gate that keeps you in / To the temple of the heart." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD:"Give me the sign of the Open Eye/And the token erect of thorny thigh/And the word of madness and mystery,/O pan! Io Pan!"-A. Crowley

QOTD: "Convert your spare bedroom into a prison cell and charge the government $25k/yr to house a convict." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Ride out and set the slaves all free / Fill our souls with your love and with your ecstasy!" - Inkubus Sukkubus

QOTD: "The pride of the peacock is the glory of God." - William Blake

QOTD: "I want, darling, to hug you." - Sappho

QOTD: "...it is the Government itself that is actually perpetuating terrorism through its nonsensical drug policies." - A. Napolitano

QOTD: "Over and under around and around / Weaving a web of desire..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Hail the Great Goddess, Mother of Mercy, who gives us life, sweetness and hope..." - Peter of Compostela, alt. by steward

QOTD: "God makes most of the tall and beautiful people stupid. Then he makes us elect them to office just to see what happens."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Alas! We have been long led away by ancient prejudices and made large sacrifices to superstition." - Thomas Paine

QOTD: "'Tis true Governments cannot be supported without great charge..." - John Locke

QOTD: "Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies." - 76th Rule of Acquisition (Ira Behr)

QOTD: "I hate getting old. Why can't we all stay twenty until the end, then fall over?" - Mercedes Lackey

QOTD: "Follow my heart into quenching clear water / Follow my heart and back again." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "In the squares of the city / In the shadow of the steeple / Near the relief office, / I see my people..." - Woody Guthrie

QOTD: "I need to contribute to the world to feel good about myself." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." - Abraham Maslow

QOTD: "Go tell the Spartans - / the Persian hordes are fierce and / wear funny slippers." - David M. Bader / Herodotus

QOTD: "All Ideal pasts, all futures which have not yet come to pass, simply obstruct our consciousness of total vivid presence."- Hakim Bey

QOTD: "...man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." - William Blake

QOTD: "Hail to the standing stones that fill our hearts with awe." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "We must depend on European films for our spiritual and intellectual sustenance rather than on American films." - John Simon

QOTD: "For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude." - Scott Adams

QOTD:"A religious film is one that deals with the choices and the problems of human action and says something as a work of art."-Rev.H.Moody

QOTD: "It is not enough for a cat to know how to climb; he must also know how to fall." - Meow Tzu

QOTD: "Nakedness...reveal(s) a quest for a possible continuance of being beyond the confines of the self." - Georges Bataille

QOTD: "She walks in beauty like the night, / Of cloudless climes and starry skies..." - Lord Byron

QOTD: "Hail to the Golden Ones! / Hail to the shining brightness!" - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "'Tis yours to support / What's so happily plann'd; / You've the sanction of Gods, / And the Fiat of Jove." - Ralph Tomlinson

QOTD: "A retarded chimpanzee can drink a case of beer and still perform most management functions. " - Scott Adams

QOTD: "What I learned at court: / Being more feared than loved - good. / Getting poisoned - bad." - David M. Bader / Niccolo Machiavelli

QOTD: "Were it not for the mark that is on thy feet / I would lift thee away, /And away, / With me." - Anon c. 16th c. C.E.

QOTD: "I know star-knowledge from the beginning of Time." - Taliesin

VOTD: "The Grave" by Don McLean: "But eternity knows him...and it knows what we've done." http://ping.fm/TB7P5

QOTD:"It's very sad that Americans spend more on potato chips than we do on investment in clean energy research and development."-John Doerr

QOTD:"Americans think our warmongering is in the name of self-defense or helping a buddy,but it is hard to reconcile it with WWJD."-S. Adams

QOTD: "Quality of life means a world that is clean / Come on help us now, keep it green!" - Walkin' Jim Stoltz

QOTD: "All live men have color in their skin, / Only dead men turn white." - Henry J. Pfaff

QOTD: "Let's be pragmatic. / Saints, monks, mystics - their faith works. / So what if they're nuts?" - David M. Bader / William James

QOTD: "There?s always something that can be improved, even among the most experienced members." - Bert Tagge ( http://bit.ly/bertqt1 )

QOTD: "What is the vision I walk in this life? / Strength and beauty and love." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "There is no better way to know death than to link it with some licentious image." - Donatien Alphonse Fran?ois, Marquis de Sade

QOTD:"The bottom line is that your existence is the sum of invisible forces operating on matter that is only probably there."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Clue cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred. Is there not a universal law of conservation of clue?" - O. Liscomb

QOTD: "The beauty of maidens worn by display, The warrior dead from not knowing fear?" - Ch?gyam Trungpa

QOTD: "...shining embers red and bright, / that was the forge of memory..." - Unknown Irish poet, c. 18c. C.E.

QOTD: "...some are grumblin? and some are wonderin? / If this land?s still made for you and me." - Woody Guthrie

QOTD: "Hail to the summer sky / Blazing fierce in mortal eye / Hail to the fire burning in the earth!" - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Now it catches the gleam / of the morning's first beam / In full glory reflected / Now shines on the stream."- Francis Scott Key

QOTD: "I advocate teaching proper cursing in school. We already do a similar thing with driver's education and sex education."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Then over each head, / My laurels I'll spread, / So my sons from your Crackers / No mischief shall dread..." - Ralph Tomlinson

QOTD: "No fascists shall defeat us, no nation strike us down, / All men who toil shall greet us, the whole wide world around." - Tom Glazer

QOTD: "Nakedness offers a contrast to self-possession, to discontinuous existence, in other words." - Georges Bataille

QOTD: "History will prove it was wrong to invade another country without provocation. That is wrong." - Sen. Robert Byrd (1917-2010)

QOTD: "Draw down the light / Draw down, the star of opening; / Welcome you, limitless / Light in extension." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "A state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens." - Sandra Day O'Connor

QOTD: "The two words you need most are zeitgeist and eponymous." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Look upon yourself / Only with compassion / Strip away the shell / Hiding your perfection..." - Todd Rundgren

QOTD: "Take him, Earth, for cherishing,/To thy tender breast receive him./Body of a man I bring thee,/Noble in its ruin." - Prudentius

QOTD: "Aloft in solitudes of space, / Uphold them with Thy saving grace..." - Mary C. D. Hamilton

QOTD: "We must protect the freedoms of even those who hate us." - Hon. Robert G. Doumar, U.S.D.J.

QOTD: "Rejoice for the newborn King of Summer / Ever greening the fields with life..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Aegean forecast - / storms, chance of one-eyed giants / delays expected." - David M. Bader / Homer

QOTD: "Spectacles add ten imaginary points to your I.Q." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Blessings upon their noble nature, to whom complex poems were no hardship..." - Unknown Irish poet, c. 18c. C.E.

QOTD: "The outhouse is to the farm hand what the water cooler is to the white-collar worker." - Lenny Bruce

QOTD: "The yogis spin by practicing yoga; If they don?t have chakras to spin, they are not yogis." - Ch?gyam Trungpa

QOTD: "The whole business of eroticism is to destroy the self-contained character of the participators." - Georges Bataille

QOTD: "I will live for this life / I will sing for all truth / I will bless your way." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Windows XP is the operating system that Microsoft built before it started abusing PC buyers with Windows Vista." - Cade Metz

QOTD:"Mortal anguish does not necessarily make for sensual pleasure,but that pleasure is more deeply felt during mortal anguish."-G Bataille

QOTD: "If these Mortals are suffered / Their scheme to pursue, / The devil a Goddess, / Will stay above stairs." - Ralph Tomlinson

QOTD: "Sea salt in my mouth / Earth dark in my mouth / Air dust in my mouth / Fire heat in my mouth / I will speak in tongues of flame"-WvB

QOTD: "Gay Anglo-Catholics - / what else to expect from a / man named Evelyn?" - David M. Bader / Evelyn Waugh

QOTD: "Don't ask me anything intensive today, I don't have the brain power to snark back currently." - Shironu-Akaineko

QOTD: "Hail Brigid of the Triple Face / Whose voice does rise on the lilt of grace..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "The sinner cannot spin according to religion; / He spins according to not knowing how to spin." - Chögyam Trungpa

QOTD: "The key to happiness is having control over a well-defined set of options, with a slow trickle of new options..." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Let every voice be thunder, let every heart be stone / Until all tyrants perish our work shall not be done." - Tom Glazer

QOTD: "Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession." - Georges Bataille

QOTD:"avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the governor of the holy Circle;thou art indeed the Great Cat."-Royal Tombs at Thebes

QOTD: "I have been a bureaucrat in my youth and I never worked so hard for so little money in my life." - Ben Stein

QOTD: "I am the grass. / Let me work." - Carl Sandburg ( http://bit.ly/bclmG9 )

QOTD: "Golden bright mystic light / Piercing the bowl of night." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "The United States has tortured people,and will continue... as long as Americans accept government deceptions."-Andrew P. Napolitano

QOTD: "I'm always fascinated by the fact that men don't feel bad that they always have to kill people in movies."-Virginie Despentes

QOTD:"a child who has been indoctrinated since birth to fear eternal torment can be manipulated for devious and deviant purposes."-C.Edwards

QOTD: "The femininity / masculinity opposition corresponds to a reified stage of human development." - Jeanne Charles

QOTD: "Weep no more, for the Sun is returning: / The summer stars will shine once more my friend." - Sharon Knight

"Facebook, Classmates.com,and their ilk encourage this kind of passive-aggressive,look-at-me-I'm-just-fine behavior."-Rita Fl?rez

QOTD: "Dumber than a Yugo full of anvils." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Morning: Pond-gazing. / Afternoon: Berry-picking. / What a hectic day." - David M. Bader / Henry David Thoreau

QOTD: "When you become / a sheet of music without notes, / your song will sing you." - John Squadra

QOTD: "One good thing about polytheism is that if God tells you to kill someone, you can get a second opinion." - Starhawk

QOTD: "Mother Kali eats herself back. All things but come to go." - Jack Kerouac

QOTD: "Blessed be you Crown of Brightness / Blessed be you Heart's Desire." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Peace high as Heaven / Heaven to the earth, / Earth under heaven, / Strength in everyone." - sending from the Morrigan, c. 800 CE

QOTD: "Great ideas often look identical to stupid ones right up until the moment they work." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "If we do not have control over our own bodies, we have control over little else." - Hon. Andrew P. Napolitano, J.S.C., ret.

QOTD: "Everybody always says say 'No!' to drugs, but I'm thinking if you're talking to drugs, it's already too late." - Internet meme

QOTD: "Licking honey from a razor blade, / Eyes of the learned gouged out by books..." - Chögyam Trungpa

QOTD: "The ability to imagine our own death not only makes us human, it may also make us divine." - Stewart Home

QOTD: "As years come on her / I gaze upon her / She's my Madonna / My mom." - Walter Donaldson

QOTD: "I hate getting old. Why can't we all stay twenty until the end, then fall over?" - Mercedes Lackey

QOTD: "I drink fire, / I breathe in the earth, / I wear clouds, /I ride on universe." - Ch?gyam Trungpa

QOTD: "Las armas nacionales se han cubierto de gloria." - General Ignacio Zaragoza

QOTD: "Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, / We're finally on our own. / This summer I hear the drumming, / Four dead in Ohio." - Neil Young

QOTD: "I will follow my heart into love everlasting / Follow my heart in the heat of the flame..." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "The opposite of being a cog is being able to stop the show, at will. What would it take for you to stop the show?" - Seth Godin

QOTD: "Throughout faerie's wide dominion, hear the trumpets swoop and soar: Avalon is rising to fall no more!" - Isaac Bonewits

Music OTD: http://ping.fm/UYt5c

QOTD: "Advice for those in / a difficult position. / First, be flexible." - David M. Bader / Vatsayana

QOTD:"No fascists shall defeat us, no nation strike us down, / All those who toil shall greet us, the whole wide world around." - Tom Glazer

QOTD: "Nothing of any substance has changed in the transition from a Republican to a Democratic administration." - Jerry White

QOTD: "Hail to the stars above / Hail to the strength of love; / Blessed be the mighty force of nature." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit." - Ronald Wilson Reagan

QOTD: "The human population is 90 percent gullible, violence-prone dipshits." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Hurry to us here, you Muses: / Good-bye to your golden mansions" - Sappho

QOTD:"I am the warrior, / I swallow sun and moon, / I wear the stars as my jewelry. / I am the conqueror of the universe." - Chögyam Trungpa

QOTD: "Friends are there when you need them; they're even there when you don't!" - Desirée Goyette

QOTD: "The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus

QOTD: "Wake up! Bless the world! Wake up! Stand tall! Wake up, breathe in deeply of the sacred all around." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Every one is as God made him, and often-times a great deal worse." - Miguel de Cervantes

QOTD: "Is it too late to start selling bumper stickers that say 'I think I voted'"? - Scott Adams

QOTD: "As grapes become wine, / so must one accept one's fate. / Die well. Like a grape." - David M. Bader / Marcus Aurelius

MOTD: 12:07 AM EDT, $982,975,195,065 spent on war since 2001. Happy Tax Day! ( http://costofwar.com )

QOTD: "...the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way..." - Metallica

QOTD: "These will pass,/Will pass and change,will die and be no more,/Things bright and green,things young and happy..."-Padraic Pearse

QOTD: "The hag has shed her winter cloak / Her brittle hair has turned to gold..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD:"The religious spin circles,in accordance with religion; If they had not practiced their religion,they could not spin."-Chögyam Trungpa

QOTD"I can no longer count on other people to alert me to the fact I'm wearing a backwards shirt. Not since I became invisible."-Scott Adams

QOTD: "Fog, gloom, men in wigs - / the Chancery Court blights all. / See where law school leads?" - David M. Bader / Charles Dickens

QOTD: "And so through every time of life, to him who acts with reason, / The beauty of all things doth appear. " - Brit. Trad.

QOTD: "And so through every time of life, to him who acts with reason, / The beauty of all things doth appear. " - Brit. Trad.

QOTD: "Have you noticed that after Tuesday even the calendar says W T F?" - Unknown

QOTD: "Politicians are most alive when their constituents are dying." - Allen Thornton

QOTD: "The Serpent rises from the well; / The Serpent speaks in cunning ear." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "He didn't appear first to the eleven. He appeared first to Mary Magdalene!" - Dennis Covington

QOTD: "Maybe I'm too cynical. Or maybe I'm just cynical enough. Sometimes it's hard to tell." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned. Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?" - Tim Rice

QOTD: "Lo! O'er ancient forms departing / Newer rites of grace prevail!" - Thomas Aquinas, tr. E. Caswall

QOTD: "The groves were God's first temples." - William Cullen Bryant

QOTD: "...passed through Glory's morning gate / And walked in Paradise." - James Aldrich (Requiesicat in Pacem, Richard Hinners, 1934-2010)

QOTD: "Awake, awake, from the frosty spell of winter; / Awake, awake, for the bloom is on the rose..." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Avoid popularity if you would have peace." - Abraham Lincoln

QOTD: "When did ignorance become a point of view?" - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Substance has essence. / Form adds whatness to thatness. / Whatsits have thinghood." - David M. Bader / Aristotle

QOTD: "Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear." - Lord Byron

QOTD"O wad some power the giftie gie us/To see oursel's as others see us!/It wad frae monie a blunder free us/An' foolish notion."-Rbt Burns

QOTD: "Fall not in love therefore; It will stick to your face." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "All of love covers the Earth / All of love the limitless dancing." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men." - James Russell Lowell

QOTD: "Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about a fish, and you're a consultant." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "A sacred burden is this life ye bear: Look on it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly." - Frances Anne Kemble

QOTD: "Hrothgar's hall, haunted / Dauntless Danes die, Grendel-gored / Why not hrelocate?" - David M. Bader / author of Beowulf

MOTD: Danny Boy, sung by Jack Deltuvia (1934-2007): - http://bit.ly/4GH9OL

QOTD: "Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?" - William Blake

QOTD: "Hail to the waterfall / Feeds the spring that keeps us all." - Sharon Knight

QOTD: "Freedom is mine - I know how I feel. It's a new dawn; it's a new day; It's a new life for me - Feeling good!" - Bricusse & Newley

QOTD:"It's your art.It's not about your body or sex or laughter.It's your art and it's beautiful and I want to see it."-Bert Tagge 1953-2010

QOTD: "All that has passed comes round again, /
For here, what is remembered, lives." - Starhawk

QOTD: "It is the deaths of others I should fear, for they can cause me inconvenience and grief." - Piers Anthony

QOTD: "People, when they talk about change, are thinking that it's going to change for other people." - William Gormley

QOTD: "Bert could outweird the weird just because he was Bert." - Stori Lundi

QOTD: "Blessed be you Gods and Mortals / Blessed be you Inner Fire." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD:"All war is evil and unlawful in itself, so much so that he who seeks war for its own sake has his end in wickedness."-Aristotle

QOTD: "I would keep everything the same, except the gun would be replaced with a donut...that fires bullets." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "Eat pullets down, ye priests, and drink your wine / And leave the foolish German laymen - fasting." - Walther von der Vogelweide

QOTD: "In a slumber visional, / Wonders apparitional / Sudden shone on me..." - Aniar MacConglinne

QOTD: "Trust your heart. It is a kind of house oracle that often fortells the things most important." - Balthasar Gracian

QOTD: "Chorus: Poor bastard. / Oedipus: This is awful! / Blind Seer: Told you so." - David M. Bader

QOTD: "My soul is living and my soul is free; I am aligned in my divinity." - T. Thorn Coyle

QOTD: "I'm not the spiteful sort at all / but have the spirit of a little child" - Sappho

QOTD: "Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." - Scott Adams

QOTD: "I would have no compassion for a witch; I would burn them all." - Martin Luther

QOTD:"We each have to try to make life better in the corner of reality that's revealed to each of us;we can't do more."-Christopher Stasheff

QOTD"In some cases i have seen actual effects be hundreds of miles away from where they were fcsted-details are still not clear."-Nierenberg

QOTD: "The last 'CEO Presidency' - George W. Bush - ended up in a ditch." - Andrew Romano

QOTD: "As long as we believe in sequential time, we're becoming, not being. Beyond time, we're all one." - Richard Bach

MOTD: http://ping.fm/SQbQM

"What we demand is the unity of politics and art." - Mao Tse Tung

QOTD: "Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to vice." - Friedrich Nietzsche

QOTD: "I saw Love / Come down from heaven / And fling off his purple cloak" - Sappho

QOTD: "They say you can't actually feel your body produce Vitamin D, but I think I can. Ahhhh." - Scott Adams

"You guys are cooler than a polar bear's toenails." - Suncere Shakur

MOTD: Happy Lupercalia! ( http://ping.fm/e9plm )

QOTD: "Well, something's lost, and something's gained / In living every day." - Joni Mitchell

QOTD:"such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts..."-Abraham Lincoln

QOTD: "Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen." - Willa Cather

QOTD: "Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'" - Robert Byrne

"Watching a politician use statistics is a little like watching a child run with scissors. Nothing good can happen." - Tom Moran

QOTD: "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." - Ernest Hemingway

QOTD: "Let those of good will bring succor to one another, and dispense with the naming of Names." - Mercedes Lackey

QOTD: "A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint Exupery

QOTD: "A library is thought in cold storage." - Herbert Samuel

QOTD:"The 10 commandments contain 279 words,the Declaration of Independence 300. EU regs for caramel candies contain 25,911."-Bodo Hauser

QOTD: "And the three men I admired most / The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost / They caught the last train for the coast..." - Don McLean

QOTD: "Have the courage to hope." - Jewel

QOTD: "Reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only be worse in Milwaukee." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Policy always sounds good on paper, what you have to look at is what they are doing in practice." - Max A.

QOTD:"...cell phones...are tiny,low-power microwave ovens,without walls,that we hold against the sides of our heads. "Christopher Ketcham

"Men are not potatoes." - Robert A. Heinlein

MOTD: Human breast milk urgently needed for preemies in Haiti, see http://ping.fm/uREmZ for donation information.

QOTD: "There's nothing liberal about letting coal and oil write climate change legislation." - Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)

QOTD: "Hire people with hooks." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "Freedom is not the same thing as wisdom." - P. Alexandra Riggs

"War is far too important to be left to the generals." - Georges Clemenceau

QOTD: "Justice and propriety begin with the constitution of commonwealth." - Thomas Hobbes

QOTD: "Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?" - John Calvin

"Governors will never be awed by the voice of the people, so long as it is a mere voice, without overt acts."-Joseph Priestley

"We are called to speak for the weak,for the voiceless,for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy..."-Martin Luther King Jr.

QOTD: "If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God." - Martin Luther

QOTD: "Revolution, In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment." - Ambrose Bierce

QOTD: "The naming of Cats is a difficult matter: it isn't just one of your holiday games." - Thomas Stearns Eliot

QOTD: "I'm just another writer still trapped within my truths..." - Dan Hill

MOTD:Godspeed and blessings upon the crew of the USS Carl Vinson and the rest of Southcom as they are deployed to aid the people of Haiti.

QOTD: "Just a dream, and the wind to carry me, and soon I will be free." - Christopher Cross

QOTD: "Do you get what you're hoping for? When you look behind you there's no open door." - Mike Masser

QOTD: "Wherever possible, put people on hold." - Tony Hendra

QOTD: "You can't mine coal without machine guns." - Richard B. Mellon

QOTD: "If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army!" - King Frederick the Great

QOTD: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." - Oscar Wilde

QOTD:"Every gun that is made,every warship launched,every rocket fired...a theft from those who hunger and are not fed."-D.D.Eisenhower

QOTD: "There is no 'pure' Anarchism. There is only the application of Anarchist principles to the realities of social living."-Sam Dolgoff

QOTD: "The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime." - Max Stirner

QOTD:"Monday morning always comes,and the magic of the weekend never lasts.Not even for fairy princesses and immortal warriors."-L. Hamilton

QOTD: "Burn the libraries, for all their value is in the Koran." - Caliph Omar (C.E. 641)

QOTD: "The people have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take." - Emma Goldman

QOTD:"Stand toe-to-toe with God and say 'No,you did something wrong.You fucked up here,and it's my job to make it better.'"-Lilith Saintcrow