365 Moments Of Inspiration: Thought Of the Day for Each Day of 2024

In this year-long journey, we aim to ignite your spirit and uplift your soul with daily doses of motivation and inspiration. We have carefully curated a collection of thought-provoking quotes from renowned authors and influential individuals, all geared towards empowering and guiding you through every day of the year.

Prepare to embark on a transformative experience as we explore the depths of human wisdom and delve into the realms of personal growth. Each quote has been handpicked to resonate with your aspirations, dreams, and challenges, offering you a guiding light and a source of encouragement.

Whether you seek motivation to pursue your goals, solace during difficult times, or simply a daily dose of positivity, our “365 Moments of Inspiration” series is designed to inspire and uplift you on your journey. Join us as we uncover the profound wisdom of famous authors and individuals who have left an indelible mark on the world.

Get ready to start each day with renewed vigor, armed with the insights and reflections from the greatest minds of our time. Together, let’s make 2023 a year of personal growth, resilience, and unwavering determination.

Be sure to stay tuned as we unveil a new Thought of the Day every day throughout the year, and allow these quotes to guide and inspire you towards a brighter, more fulfilling future. Let the journey begin!

January Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Sunday January 2023

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. ─── Oprah Winfrey

Thought of the day: 2nd Monday January 2023

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ─── George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791

Thought of the day: 3rd Tuesday January 2023

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 4th Wednesday January 2023

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. ─── Arthur Schopenhauer

Thought of the day: 5th Thursday January 2023

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. ─── Rebecca West

Thought of the day: 6th Friday January 2023

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. ─── Michael Korda

Thought of the day: 7th Saturday January 2023

It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. ─── Samuel Butler

Thought of the day: 8th Sunday January 2023

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 9th Monday January 2023

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. ─── Honore de Balzac

Thought of the day: 10th Tuesday January 2023

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance. ─── Victor Borge

Thought of the day: 11th Wednesday January 2023

Even paranoids have real enemies. ─── Delmore Schwartz

Thought of the day: 12th Thursday January 2023

My only aversion to vice, is the price. ─── Victor Buono

Thought of the day: 13th Friday January 2023

If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it. ─── Paul Fussell

Thought of the day: 14th Saturday January 2023

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 15th Sunday January 2023

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 16th Monday January 2023

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. ─── Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Economy, 1854

Thought of the day: 17th Tuesday January 2023

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. ─── John Barrymore

Thought of the day: 18th Wednesday January 2023

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. ─── Don Marquis

Thought of the day: 19th Thursday January 2023

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ─── Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought of the day: 20th Friday January 2023

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived. ─── Jonathan Swift

Thought of the day: 21st Saturday January 2023

Dinner theater is anti-culture. ─── John Simon

Thought of the day: 22nd Sunday January 2023

Virtue has never been as respectable as money. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 23rd Monday January 2023

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. ─── John Barrymore

Thought of the day: 24th Tuesday January 2023

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. ─── Friedrich Nietzsche

Thought of the day: 25th Wednesday January 2023

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned. ─── Richard Bach

Thought of the day: 26th Thursday January 2023

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. ─── John Ciardi

Thought of the day: 27th Friday January 2023

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. ─── Heywood Broun

Thought of the day: 28th Saturday January 2023

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. ─── E.M. Cioran

Thought of the day: 29th Sunday January 2023

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. ─── Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958

Thought of the day: 30th Monday January 2023

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. ─── Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Conclusion, 1854

Thought of the day: 31st Tuesday January 2023

God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. ─── Benjamin Franklin

February Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Wednesday February 2023

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. ─── Fran Lebowitz

Thought of the day: 2nd Thursday February 2023

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all. ─── Jules Renard

Thought of the day: 3rd Friday February 2023

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ─── Lord Chesterfield

Thought of the day: 4th Saturday February 2023

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 5th Sunday February 2023

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. ─── Martin Mull

Thought of the day: 6th Monday February 2023

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. ─── Woody Allen

Thought of the day: 7th Tuesday February 2023

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type – but never a stereotype ─── Jean-Michel Jarre

Thought of the day: 8th Wednesday February 2023

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ─── Peter De Vries

Thought of the day: 9th Thursday February 2023

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 10th Friday February 2023

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? ─── Evelyn Waugh

Thought of the day: 11th Saturday February 2023

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers. ─── Charles Chincholles

Thought of the day: 12th Sunday February 2023

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide. ─── Mortimer Caplin

Thought of the day: 13th Monday February 2023

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. ─── Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843

Thought of the day: 14th Tuesday February 2023

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. ─── James Agate

Thought of the day: 15th Wednesday February 2023

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars. ─── Fred Allen

Thought of the day: 16th Thursday February 2023

One of these days, the people are going to demand peace of the government, and the government is going to have to give it to them. ─── Dwight Eisenhower

Thought of the day: 17th Friday February 2023

God must hate common people, because he made them so common. ─── Philip Wylie

Thought of the day: 18th Saturday February 2023

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. ─── W.C. Fields

Thought of the day: 19th Sunday February 2023

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 20th Monday February 2023

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 21st Tuesday February 2023

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. ─── Christopher Morley

Thought of the day: 22nd Wednesday February 2023

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. ─── Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903

Thought of the day: 23rd Thursday February 2023

Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead ─── James Thurber

Thought of the day: 24th Friday February 2023

Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 25th Saturday February 2023

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad. ─── R. D. Laing

Thought of the day: 26th Sunday February 2023

War is like love; it always finds a way. ─── Bertolt Brecht

Thought of the day: 27th Monday February 2023

There are three terrible ages of childhood – 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. ─── Cleveland Amory

Thought of the day: 28th Tuesday February 2023

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom ─── Sir Francis Bacon

March Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Wednesday March 2023

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ─── Robert W. Sarnoff

Thought of the day: 2nd Thursday March 2023

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. ─── Calvin Trillin

Thought of the day: 3rd Friday March 2023

Wife: a former sweetheart. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 4th Saturday March 2023

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom. ─── Don DeLillo

Thought of the day: 5th Sunday March 2023

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. ─── Arthur Koestler

Thought of the day: 6th Monday March 2023

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers! ─── Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thought of the day: 7th Tuesday March 2023

It is not enough to succeed; others must fail. ─── Gore Vidal

Thought of the day: 8th Wednesday March 2023

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ─── William Safire

Thought of the day: 9th Thursday March 2023

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 10th Friday March 2023

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. ─── Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841

Thought of the day: 11th Saturday March 2023

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. ─── VII Putnam

Thought of the day: 12th Sunday March 2023

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 13th Monday March 2023

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. ─── Gore Vidal

Thought of the day: 14th Tuesday March 2023

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. ─── Peter De Vries

Thought of the day: 15th Wednesday March 2023

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education. ─── Bertrand Russell

Thought of the day: 16th Thursday March 2023

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. ─── George Orwell

Thought of the day: 17th Friday March 2023

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ─── Friedrich Nietzsche

Thought of the day: 18th Saturday March 2023

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on. ─── Charles Manson

Thought of the day: 19th Sunday March 2023

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. ─── J. K. Galbraith

Thought of the day: 20th Monday March 2023

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ─── Logan Pearsall Smith

Thought of the day: 21st Tuesday March 2023

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. ─── Gore Vidal

Thought of the day: 22nd Wednesday March 2023

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ─── Jules Renard

Thought of the day: 23rd Thursday March 2023

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying. ─── Sir Thomas Browne

Thought of the day: 24th Friday March 2023

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time. ─── Andy Warhol

Thought of the day: 25th Saturday March 2023

Canada: A few acres of snow. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 26th Sunday March 2023

It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg. ─── William Hamilton

Thought of the day: 27th Monday March 2023

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. ─── Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

Thought of the day: 28th Tuesday March 2023

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. ─── Samuel Butler

Thought of the day: 29th Wednesday March 2023

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy ─── Franz Kafka

Thought of the day: 30th Thursday March 2023

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ─── Brendan Behan

Thought of the day: 31st Friday March 2023

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. ─── Heinrich Heine

April Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Saturday April 2023

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 2nd Sunday April 2023

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 3rd Monday April 2023

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy ─── MIT Assasination Club slogan

Thought of the day: 4th Tuesday April 2023

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 5th Wednesday April 2023

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse. ─── Groucho Marx

Thought of the day: 6th Thursday April 2023

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. ─── Georges Clemenceau

Thought of the day: 7th Friday April 2023

Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world. ─── R. D. Laing

Thought of the day: 8th Saturday April 2023

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. ─── Henry David Thoreau, “Walden,” the Conclusion

Thought of the day: 9th Sunday April 2023

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt. ─── Robert Heinlein, Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, “Time Enough for Love”

Thought of the day: 10th Monday April 2023

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time… ─── W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado, 1885

Thought of the day: 11th Tuesday April 2023

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ─── Tom Stoppard

Thought of the day: 12th Wednesday April 2023

Television: chewing gum for the eyes. ─── Frank Lloyd Wright

Thought of the day: 13th Thursday April 2023

Morality is the weakness of the mind. ─── Arthur Rimbaud

Thought of the day: 14th Friday April 2023

New York: A third-rate Babylon. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 15th Saturday April 2023

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 16th Sunday April 2023

Advertising is legalized lying. ─── H.G. Wells

Thought of the day: 17th Monday April 2023

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle. ─── Rita Mae Brown

Thought of the day: 18th Tuesday April 2023

Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God. ─── Jean Rostand

Thought of the day: 19th Wednesday April 2023

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. ─── Lenny Bruce

Thought of the day: 20th Thursday April 2023

The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums. ─── Peter De Vries

Thought of the day: 21st Friday April 2023

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 22nd Saturday April 2023

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 23rd Sunday April 2023

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. ─── Unknown

Thought of the day: 24th Monday April 2023

Red is grey and yellow white
We decide which is right
and which is an illusion. ─── Moody Blues, “Tuesday Afternoon”

Thought of the day: 25th Tuesday April 2023

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. ─── Germaine Greer

Thought of the day: 26th Wednesday April 2023

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica. ─── J.G. Ballard

Thought of the day: 27th Thursday April 2023

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. ─── Jules Feiffer

Thought of the day: 28th Friday April 2023

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 29th Saturday April 2023

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 30th Sunday April 2023

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ─── Sydney Smith

May Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Monday May 2023

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. ─── Audrey Giorgi

Thought of the day: 2nd Tuesday May 2023

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. ─── Sam Levenson

Thought of the day: 3rd Wednesday May 2023

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people. ─── Benito Mussolini

Thought of the day: 4th Thursday May 2023

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. ─── Friedrich Nietzsche

Thought of the day: 5th Friday May 2023

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. ─── Fred Allen

Thought of the day: 6th Saturday May 2023

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 7th Sunday May 2023

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 8th Monday May 2023

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going. ─── J.B. Priestley

Thought of the day: 9th Tuesday May 2023

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. ─── J.B. Priestley

Thought of the day: 10th Wednesday May 2023

I am not young enough to know everything. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 11th Thursday May 2023

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. ─── Arthur Schopenhauer

Thought of the day: 12th Friday May 2023

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 13th Saturday May 2023

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes. ─── Don Marquis

Thought of the day: 14th Sunday May 2023

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ─── H.G. Wells

Thought of the day: 15th Monday May 2023

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. ─── Alfred Hitchcock

Thought of the day: 16th Tuesday May 2023

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. ─── Wilson Mizner

Thought of the day: 17th Wednesday May 2023

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. ─── Jack Paar

Thought of the day: 18th Thursday May 2023

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. ─── Woodrow Wilson

Thought of the day: 19th Friday May 2023

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 20th Saturday May 2023

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. ─── Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem

Thought of the day: 21st Sunday May 2023

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. ─── Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts – 1827

Thought of the day: 22nd Monday May 2023

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. ─── Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races – 1936

Thought of the day: 23rd Tuesday May 2023

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself. ─── Rita Mae Brown

Thought of the day: 24th Wednesday May 2023

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. ─── John Updike

Thought of the day: 25th Thursday May 2023

Nothing fails like success. ─── Gerald Nachman

Thought of the day: 26th Friday May 2023

Success and failure are equally disastrous. ─── Tennessee Williams

Thought of the day: 27th Saturday May 2023

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 28th Sunday May 2023

So little time, so little to do. ─── Oscar Levant

Thought of the day: 29th Monday May 2023

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ─── Dick Gregory

Thought of the day: 30th Tuesday May 2023

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists. ─── Don Marquis

Thought of the day: 31st Wednesday May 2023

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. ─── George F. Will

June Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Thursday June 2023

It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 2nd Friday June 2023

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. ─── Horace Smith

Thought of the day: 3rd Saturday June 2023

What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 4th Sunday June 2023

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell. ─── Philip Sheridan

Thought of the day: 5th Monday June 2023

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 6th Tuesday June 2023

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. ─── Woody Allen

Thought of the day: 7th Wednesday June 2023

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 8th Thursday June 2023

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. ─── George Santayana

Thought of the day: 9th Friday June 2023

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education. ─── Wilson Mizner

Thought of the day: 10th Saturday June 2023

When in doubt, duck. ─── Malcolm Forbes

Thought of the day: 11th Sunday June 2023

Our best work is done when it needs to be. ─── F. Phelps

Thought of the day: 12th Monday June 2023

There is no free lunch. ─── Milton Friedman

Thought of the day: 13th Tuesday June 2023

The cowards never start and the weak die along the way. ─── Kit Carson

Thought of the day: 14th Wednesday June 2023

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 15th Thursday June 2023

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 16th Friday June 2023

Sin is geographical. ─── Bertrand Russell

Thought of the day: 17th Saturday June 2023

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. ─── J.B. Priestley

Thought of the day: 18th Sunday June 2023

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 19th Monday June 2023

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. ─── Bertolt Brecht

Thought of the day: 20th Tuesday June 2023

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal. ─── Rebecca West

Thought of the day: 21st Wednesday June 2023

The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants. ─── Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

Thought of the day: 22nd Thursday June 2023

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. ─── Joseph Conrad

Thought of the day: 23rd Friday June 2023

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ─── Fran Lebowitz

Thought of the day: 24th Saturday June 2023

My work is done, why wait? ─── Kodak founder George Eastman, in his suicide note

Thought of the day: 25th Sunday June 2023

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin. ─── The Talmud

Thought of the day: 26th Monday June 2023

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead. ─── Thomas B. Reed

Thought of the day: 27th Tuesday June 2023

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ─── Stendhal

Thought of the day: 28th Wednesday June 2023

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ─── Stephen Leacock

Thought of the day: 29th Thursday June 2023

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 30th Friday June 2023

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste. ─── Bertolt Brecht

July Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Saturday July 2023

Bibo, ergo sum. – I drink, therefore I am ─── Fredirect Toyou

Thought of the day: 2nd Sunday July 2023

Cogito ergo spud. – I think, therefore I yam ─── Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980

Thought of the day: 3rd Monday July 2023

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 4th Tuesday July 2023

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. ─── Judy Garland, to her daughter, Liza Minelli

Thought of the day: 5th Wednesday July 2023

Most religions do not make men better, only warier. ─── Elias Canetti

Thought of the day: 6th Thursday July 2023

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 7th Friday July 2023

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared. ─── Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802

Thought of the day: 8th Saturday July 2023

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ─── Napoleon Bonaparte

Thought of the day: 9th Sunday July 2023

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. ─── Sir Winston Churchill

Thought of the day: 10th Monday July 2023

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ─── Thomas Jefferson (Motto on his seal)

Thought of the day: 11th Tuesday July 2023

A little rebellion now and then…is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ─── Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787

Thought of the day: 12th Wednesday July 2023

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ─── Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)

Thought of the day: 13th Thursday July 2023

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. ─── Charles De Gaulle

Thought of the day: 14th Friday July 2023

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it. ─── Jules Renard

Thought of the day: 15th Saturday July 2023

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. ─── Doug Larson

Thought of the day: 16th Sunday July 2023

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ─── Unknown

Thought of the day: 17th Monday July 2023

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. ─── Marian Evans

Thought of the day: 18th Tuesday July 2023

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 19th Wednesday July 2023

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. ─── Evelyn Waugh

Thought of the day: 20th Thursday July 2023

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. ─── Anton Chekhov

Thought of the day: 21st Friday July 2023

I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God. ─── Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1850

Thought of the day: 22nd Saturday July 2023

Bad spellers of the world, untie! ─── Grafitto

Thought of the day: 23rd Sunday July 2023

Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart. ─── Stephen Price

Thought of the day: 24th Monday July 2023

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. ─── Max Weinreich

Thought of the day: 25th Tuesday July 2023

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ─── Marlene Dietrich

Thought of the day: 26th Wednesday July 2023

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ─── Susan Ertz

Thought of the day: 27th Thursday July 2023

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 28th Friday July 2023

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce. ─── Don Quinn

Thought of the day: 29th Saturday July 2023

When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 30th Sunday July 2023

On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment – halftime. ─── Unknown

Thought of the day: 31st Monday July 2023

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ─── La Rochefoucauld

August Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Tuesday August 2023

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell upon their knees. Then they fell upon the aborigines. ─── (Anon.)

Thought of the day: 2nd Wednesday August 2023

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. ─── Elie Wiesel

Thought of the day: 3rd Thursday August 2023

A ship in harbor is safe— but that is not what ships are for. ─── John A. Shedd

Thought of the day: 4th Friday August 2023

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. ─── P. G. Wodehouse

Thought of the day: 5th Saturday August 2023

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. ─── W. Somerset Maugham

Thought of the day: 6th Sunday August 2023

We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. ─── W. Somerset Maugham

Thought of the day: 7th Monday August 2023

Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. ─── Sam Levenson

Thought of the day: 8th Tuesday August 2023

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 9th Wednesday August 2023

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. ─── From The Last Goon Show of All

Thought of the day: 10th Thursday August 2023

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. ─── Bertrand Russell

Thought of the day: 11th Friday August 2023

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. ─── Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor

Thought of the day: 12th Saturday August 2023

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it is one damn thing over and over. ─── Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thought of the day: 13th Sunday August 2023

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. ─── Paul Gauguin

Thought of the day: 14th Monday August 2023

Men and women, women and men. It will never work. ─── Erica Jong

Thought of the day: 15th Tuesday August 2023

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. ─── Gloria Steinem

Thought of the day: 16th Wednesday August 2023

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ─── Timothy Leary

Thought of the day: 17th Thursday August 2023

Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 18th Friday August 2023

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ─── Thomas Szasz

Thought of the day: 19th Saturday August 2023

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say. ─── Jean Cocteau

Thought of the day: 20th Sunday August 2023

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 21st Monday August 2023

What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers. ─── The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)

Thought of the day: 22nd Tuesday August 2023

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. ─── Sir Winston Churchill

Thought of the day: 23rd Wednesday August 2023

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ─── Robert Byrne

Thought of the day: 24th Thursday August 2023

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ─── Henry Kissinger

Thought of the day: 25th Friday August 2023

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 26th Saturday August 2023

J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied, ─── It will fluctuate.

Thought of the day: 27th Sunday August 2023

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 28th Monday August 2023

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. ─── Joseph Heller, “Catch-22”

Thought of the day: 29th Tuesday August 2023

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 30th Wednesday August 2023

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. ─── Robert Byrne

Thought of the day: 31st Thursday August 2023

If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers? ─── Calvin Trillin

September Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Friday September 2023

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 2nd Saturday September 2023

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. ─── John D. Rockefeller

Thought of the day: 3rd Sunday September 2023

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 4th Monday September 2023

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. ─── Aldous Huxley

Thought of the day: 5th Tuesday September 2023

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union. ─── Joseph Stalin

Thought of the day: 6th Wednesday September 2023

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. ─── Aristotle

Thought of the day: 7th Thursday September 2023

The gods too are fond of a joke ─── Aristotle

Thought of the day: 8th Friday September 2023

He was a wise man who invented God. ─── Plato

Thought of the day: 9th Saturday September 2023

Wit is educated insolence. ─── Aristotle

Thought of the day: 10th Sunday September 2023

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these ─── Ovid

Thought of the day: 11th Monday September 2023

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 12th Tuesday September 2023

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. ─── Alfred Jarry

Thought of the day: 13th Wednesday September 2023

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. ─── Abraham Lincoln

Thought of the day: 14th Thursday September 2023

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ─── John Stuart Mill

Thought of the day: 15th Friday September 2023

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less. ─── General Robert E. Lee

Thought of the day: 16th Saturday September 2023

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. ─── Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”

Thought of the day: 17th Sunday September 2023

We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion. ─── Ronald Graham, “Rudiments of Ramsey Theory”

Thought of the day: 18th Monday September 2023

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ─── Saint Jerome

Thought of the day: 19th Tuesday September 2023

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ─── T. E. Lawrence, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom”

Thought of the day: 20th Wednesday September 2023

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ─── James Russell Lowell

Thought of the day: 21st Thursday September 2023

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. ─── Eric Berne

Thought of the day: 22nd Friday September 2023

Read my lips–NO NEW TAXES! ─── George Herbert Walker Bush, Nov. 1988

Thought of the day: 23rd Saturday September 2023

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 24th Sunday September 2023

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 25th Monday September 2023

A witty saying proves nothing. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 26th Tuesday September 2023

There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. ─── Timothy Leary

Thought of the day: 27th Wednesday September 2023

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. ─── Robert Quillen

Thought of the day: 28th Thursday September 2023

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. ─── Harry S Truman

Thought of the day: 29th Friday September 2023

Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit everyone once a year. ─── Victor Borges

Thought of the day: 30th Saturday September 2023

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed. ─── I.F. Stone 1907-1989

October Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Sunday October 2023

Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth. ─── The Clown Prince of Darkness, corresponsdence

Thought of the day: 2nd Monday October 2023

Gifts are like hooks. ─── Marcus Valerius Martialis

Thought of the day: 3rd Tuesday October 2023

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. ─── Frank Zappa

Thought of the day: 4th Wednesday October 2023

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 5th Thursday October 2023

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. ─── Tom Stoppard

Thought of the day: 6th Friday October 2023

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 7th Saturday October 2023

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist. ─── Truman Capote

Thought of the day: 8th Sunday October 2023

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 9th Monday October 2023

New York is the only city in the world where you can get deliberately run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. ─── Russell Baker

Thought of the day: 10th Tuesday October 2023

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff – it is a palliative rather than a remedy. ─── Peter De Vries

Thought of the day: 11th Wednesday October 2023

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ─── Franklin P. Jones

Thought of the day: 12th Thursday October 2023

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 13th Friday October 2023

I knew her before she was a virgin. ─── Oscar Levant

Thought of the day: 14th Saturday October 2023

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ─── Alex Comfort

Thought of the day: 15th Sunday October 2023

Celibacy is not hereditary. ─── Guy Goden

Thought of the day: 16th Monday October 2023

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder. ─── The Clown Prince of Darkness

Thought of the day: 17th Tuesday October 2023

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. (“Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.”) ─── Plautus

Thought of the day: 18th Wednesday October 2023

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities. ─── Tom Robbins

Thought of the day: 19th Thursday October 2023

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. ─── Karl Kraus

Thought of the day: 20th Friday October 2023

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself ─── Sir Richard F. Burton

Thought of the day: 21st Saturday October 2023

Justice is incedental to law and order. ─── J. Edgar Hoover

Thought of the day: 22nd Sunday October 2023

Reading musses up my mind. ─── Henry Ford

Thought of the day: 23rd Monday October 2023

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ─── Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

Thought of the day: 24th Tuesday October 2023

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ─── Anatole France

Thought of the day: 25th Wednesday October 2023

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ─── Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Thought of the day: 26th Thursday October 2023

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. ─── Henry Fielding

Thought of the day: 27th Friday October 2023

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. ─── James Beard

Thought of the day: 28th Saturday October 2023

Obscenity is what happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ─── Bertrand Russell

Thought of the day: 29th Sunday October 2023

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ─── Abraham Lincoln

Thought of the day: 30th Monday October 2023

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. ─── Wilson Mizner

Thought of the day: 31st Tuesday October 2023

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ─── George Bernard Shaw

November Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Wednesday November 2023

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is. ─── Jean Anouilh

Thought of the day: 2nd Thursday November 2023

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. ─── Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

Thought of the day: 3rd Friday November 2023

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. ─── Herodotus

Thought of the day: 4th Saturday November 2023

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 5th Sunday November 2023

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ─── Lord Acton

Thought of the day: 6th Monday November 2023

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 7th Tuesday November 2023

The Irish are a fair people – they never speak well of one another. ─── Samuel Johnson

Thought of the day: 8th Wednesday November 2023

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 9th Thursday November 2023

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. ─── John F. Kennedy

Thought of the day: 10th Friday November 2023

Spring makes everything look filthy. ─── Katherine Whitehorn

Thought of the day: 11th Saturday November 2023

Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods. ─── Jack Warner

Thought of the day: 12th Sunday November 2023

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it. ─── Alexander Woollcott

Thought of the day: 13th Monday November 2023

Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. ─── Lenny Bruce

Thought of the day: 14th Tuesday November 2023

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. ─── Norman Mailer

Thought of the day: 15th Wednesday November 2023

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. ─── Oscar Wilde

Thought of the day: 16th Thursday November 2023

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me. ─── Woody Allen, Annie Hall

Thought of the day: 17th Friday November 2023

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. ─── Amelia Earhart

Thought of the day: 18th Saturday November 2023

How could I lose to such an idiot? ─── Aaron Nimzovich, A shout from the chess grandmaster

Thought of the day: 19th Sunday November 2023

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. ─── Chateaubriand

Thought of the day: 20th Monday November 2023

Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open. ─── Unknown

Thought of the day: 21st Tuesday November 2023

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. ─── Herb Caen

Thought of the day: 22nd Wednesday November 2023

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress. ─── Quentin Crisp

Thought of the day: 23rd Thursday November 2023

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other. ─── Voltaire

Thought of the day: 24th Friday November 2023

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. ─── Mark Twain

Thought of the day: 25th Saturday November 2023

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 26th Sunday November 2023

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. ─── Cyril Connolly

Thought of the day: 27th Monday November 2023

A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight begins. ─── Heywood Broun

Thought of the day: 28th Tuesday November 2023

Memory feeds imagination. ─── Amy Tan

Thought of the day: 29th Wednesday November 2023

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. ─── Dorothy Parker

Thought of the day: 30th Thursday November 2023

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you. ─── Peter De Vries

December Thought of the day

Thought of the day: 1st Friday December 2023

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them. ─── Spinoza, Dutch Philosopher

Thought of the day: 2nd Saturday December 2023

People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. ─── Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy

Thought of the day: 3rd Sunday December 2023

Hurting people is my business. ─── Sugar Ray Robinson

Thought of the day: 4th Monday December 2023

My toughest fight was with my first wife. ─── Muhammad Ali

Thought of the day: 5th Tuesday December 2023

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ─── Benjamin Disraeli

Thought of the day: 6th Wednesday December 2023

Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ─── Fran Lebowitz

Thought of the day: 7th Thursday December 2023

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations. ─── Saint Augustine

Thought of the day: 8th Friday December 2023

A big book is a big bore. ─── Callimachus (c. 260 B.C.)

Thought of the day: 9th Saturday December 2023

This book fills a much needed gap. ─── Moses Hadas

Thought of the day: 10th Sunday December 2023

I have read your book and much like it. ─── Moses Hadas

Thought of the day: 11th Monday December 2023

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. ─── Igor Stravinsky

Thought of the day: 12th Tuesday December 2023

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ─── Kin Hubbard

Thought of the day: 13th Wednesday December 2023

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow. ─── Mouth organist Larry Adler

Thought of the day: 14th Thursday December 2023

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. ─── Thomas Jefferson

Thought of the day: 15th Friday December 2023

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas. ─── S.J. Perelman

Thought of the day: 16th Saturday December 2023

Cogito ergo dim sum. (Therefore I think these are pork buns.) ─── Robert Byrne

Thought of the day: 17th Sunday December 2023

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. ─── Alexander Pope

Thought of the day: 18th Monday December 2023

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. ─── Christopher Isherwood

Thought of the day: 19th Tuesday December 2023

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ─── Benjamin Disraeli

Thought of the day: 20th Wednesday December 2023

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ─── Karl Kraus

Thought of the day: 21st Thursday December 2023

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. ─── George Bernard Shaw

Thought of the day: 22nd Friday December 2023

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. ─── Georges Clemenceau

Thought of the day: 23rd Saturday December 2023

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. ─── Blake Clark

Thought of the day: 24th Sunday December 2023

The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions. ─── Maurice Chapelain

Thought of the day: 25th Monday December 2023

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ─── H. L. Mencken

Thought of the day: 26th Tuesday December 2023

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ─── George Eliot

Thought of the day: 27th Wednesday December 2023

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. ─── Karl Marx

Thought of the day: 28th Thursday December 2023

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. ─── Diogenes the Cynic (412 to 323 B.C.)

Thought of the day: 29th Friday December 2023

I was going to buy a copy of “The Power of Positive Thinking”, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? ─── Ronnie Shakes

Thought of the day: 30th Saturday December 2023

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. ─── J. D. Salinger

Thought of the day: 31st Sunday December 2023

A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. ─── George Bernard Shaw