Quote O' The Day

[Peelz]

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[Krandall]

'A little girl without a doll is more or less as miserable and just as impossible as a woman without a child.'  -Victor Hugo

One of the giants of French literature, Victor Hugo was just 2 years old when Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France, and he was 18 when the Bourbon Monarchy -- overthrown in the Revolution -- was restored to power. Growing up, the Hugo home was divided politically, though Hugo had such a close relationship with his mother that he held off getting married until after she died.

[Krandall]

'Getting old is when you start complaining about the next generation. We should be making changes to be like the new generation, instead of moaning.'  -Jenny Agutter


British actress Jenny Agutter's career in front of the camera began at age 12, and although she has tons of credits to her name, she is best known in her native England for playing Tessa Philips in the drama Spooks as well as Jessica 6 in Logan's Run.

[Krandall]

'The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some. '  -Burton Hillis

Burton Hillis is much better known by his real name, William E. ("Bill") Vaughan, an American newspaper columnist and writer whose many aphorisms have survived him (he died in 1977), taking on a life of their own on the internet.

[Krandall]

funyun offerin himself to peelz. 

[Today at 11:21:00 AM] del ban PeelsSE2: just saying I WOULD go but....

[Today at 11:21:03 AM] del ban PeelsSE2: lol

[Today at 11:21:03 AM] del ban funyun: all the chips you can eat on the drive

[Today at 11:21:09 AM] del ban PeelsSE2: oh dear.

[Peelz]

the things kids do just to get to go ride...   

[Krandall]

'Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?'  -Stanislaw Lec

Born Stanislaw Jerzy de Tusch-Letz, Stanislaw Lec was a Polish-born 20th century writer most famous now for quotes much like today's quote: short, witty aphorisms with political or moral subtext lurking beneath the surface.

[Krandall]

Pat talking about a 20y/o w/ 2 kids that he's thinking about bringing to LS.

[Today at 01:19:34 PM] del ban Spartan727: I may take her to LS lol I was just talking about it and she sounded like she wanted to go...we'll see

[Today at 01:19:40 PM] del ban maguilar496: just hit it and procede to quit it..............

[Today at 01:19:43 PM] del ban funyun: defianetly has aids and other stds

[Hefe]

STD's should be in caps funners!

[Peelz]

and: are you saying defiantly...or definitely?   

[Magz]

and: are you saying defiantly...or definitely?   

I think he is sayind defiantly, or against pats will..........

[Spartan]

I spreadz it...yes.

[Krandall]

'Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. '  -Aaron Levenstein


Levenstein was an American educator and author who worked for two decades as associate professor of business administration at Baruch College. He attended City College as an undergrad and earned his LL.B. from the New York Law School. He is best known for today's quote.

[Krandall]

'Golf is like sex: You don't have to be an athlete to do it. And you don't have to be good at it to enjoy it.'  -Billy Joe Tolliver


Drafted 51st overall in the 1989 NFL draft, QB Billy Joe Tolliver played 12 rather uneventful seasons in professional football, retiring in 2000. Several years later, however, Tolliver earned a No. 1 ranking of a different sort: In 2007, Golf Digest ranked him at the top of the best golfers from the world of sports.

[Krandall]

Making up for lost QOTD yesterday:


'[William Faulkner] thinks I don't know the $10 words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.'  -Ernest Hemingway

Although these two extraordinary writers, Faulkner and Hemingway, were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in subsequent years (Faulkner in 1949, Hemingway in 1950), their styles -- from their settings to their morals to their approach to literature to the very language they used -- could not have been much more different, as Hemingway notes in today's quote.

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'No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.'  -Barbara Ehrenreich

Writer, activist and keen social critic Barbara Ehrenreich is a cancer survivor and the author of over 20 books, including Nickel and Dimed, an expose in which she went undercover to try and get by on a low-wage job. The book argued that many of the allegations made against people receiving welfare and other forms of government help -- namely that they're lazy and only want a handout -- were patently false.