Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-01-08 Jan 8, 2008All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.~ Mark TwainFleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.~ Mark TwainReader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.~ Mark Twain Jan 7, 2008A foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief.~ Will RogersHurray! Congress is to adjourn! Only four more days of Congressional burglary on the Treasury!~ Will RogersThat's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury.~ Will Rogers Jan 4, 2008When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.~ Indian SayingYour depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.~ Scott O'GradyWe who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.~ Viktor Frankl Jan 3, 2008If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.~ Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonWhat is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'.~ Marilyn vos SavantIt will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.~ Will Rogers Jan 2, 2008He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador de MadariagaKnowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.~ Daniel WebsterLove is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print