Quote of the Day

"The instinct of man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him." --Voltaire (1694-1778)

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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they shall never sit in." --Greek proverb

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"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the mind as the wish to forget it." --Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." --Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

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"A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once." --Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

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"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure." --Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

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"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed." --Christopher Morley (1890-1957)

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"Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein." --Joe Theismann (b. 1949)

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"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." --Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

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"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen." --Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.)

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"The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next you're an object." --Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962)

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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" --Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

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"Sin is geographical." --Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

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"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives." --Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962)

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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." --Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)

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"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead." --Leo Rosten (1908-1997)

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"It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard." --George Christopher Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

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"One of the indictments of civilization is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person." --William Feather (1889-1981)

Introducing The Quote of the Day

In order to keep things interesting around here, I've decided to implement "The Quote of the Day" here in the Garden. Each day that I don't release a blog will at least have a quote of some sort. I've been collecting quotes for years, so I've got a variety of quotes to make you laugh, think, etc.
So come by once a day to see what's up. I'll continue to post links on Facebook when I actually write something (become a fan of The Octopus's Garden on Facebook if you haven't already!), but I won't bother for the quotes.
As always, feel free to comment. It lets me know two things: 1. I get to know your thoughts on an issue (something that is important to me, because I like getting involved in discussions). 2. I get to feel like I actually have an audience. Sometimes I feel like Dr. Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park: "See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself." (That wasn't the quote of the day.)

Quote for January 24th, 2010:

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." --Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)