funny daily quotes

A wee child toddling in a wonder world.... I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan. ~Zitkala-Sa



Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ~W.H. Auden



It's all in the attitude - housework is exercise. Slim your way to a clean home! ~Linda Solegato



I bought a decaffeinated coffee table, you can't even see a difference. ~Author Unknown



Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off... the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian



The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ~Muhammad Ali



Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. ~Alan Alda



There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. ~J. Robert Oppenheimer



A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk. ~O.A. Battista



The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ~Johann von Goethe



The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. ~J. Frank Dobie



Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Friendship," Essays, 1841



Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion. ~Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex, 1986



God not only sends special angels into our lives, but sometimes He even sends them back again if we forget to take notes the first time! ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



I will not carry a gun.... I'll carry your books, I'll carry a torch, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even hari-kari if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun! ~Hawkeye, "Officer of the Day," original airdate 24 September 1974, written by Laurence Marks, directed by Hy Averback



An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas



While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~Henry C. Link



I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. ~Bernard Keble Sandwell



If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. ~Andrea Boydston



Sometimes even the flight of an angel hits turbulence. ~Astrid Alauda