Quotation of the day for January 31, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 31, 2016 "Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang, der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang." ["He who loves not wine, woman and song/Remains a fool his whole life long"] - Johann Heinrich Voss (1751-1826) [The quotation is often mistakenly attributed to Martin Luther.-eds] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 29, 2016

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Quotation of the day for January 30, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 30, 2016 "La culture, c'est ce qui reste quand on a tout oublie." ["Culture is what is left after we have forgotten everything else."] - Edouard Herriot Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 29, 2016

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Quotation of the day for January 27, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 27, 2016 "Why does Trump behave this way? Because he's a preposterous little trust-fund wuss, that's why. As was illustrated once again last night, the man is not really a "fighter" or an "alpha male" or an iron-cored "enemy of political correctness." He's a thin-skinned performance artist whose peculiar shtick falls to pieces the moment someone useful elects to return a punch. Look through Trump's recent Twitter contributions and you will see a wounded man who is always a few harsh phrases and a modicum of bad publicity away from curling up in an oversized sweater and listening to "Everybody Hurts" on repeat." - Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/424577/donald-trump-pathetic-wuss] Submitted by: Steve Sidner Sep. 25, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 26, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 26, 2016 "Trump's irresponsible, inflammatory rhetoric and deliberate propagation of misinformation have created a frightened and hostile atmosphere that could embolden people to violence. He's the swaggering guy in old Westerns buying drinks for everyone in the saloon while whipping them up for a lynching." - Kareem Abdul Jabber, Time Magazine, 12/9/2015 Submitted by: Dorene Smith Dec. 20, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 25, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 25, 2016 "I want to thank the neutrinos, of course. And since neutrinos are created by cosmic rays, I want to thank them, too." - Takaaki Kajita of the University of Tokyo, at a news conference after he shared the 2015 Nobel prize in physics. [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/science/nobel-prize-physics-takaaki-kajita-arthur-b-mcdonald.html] Submitted by: Manavendra Thakur Oct. 6, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 24, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 24, 2016 "As you may have heard, the pope met in secret with Kim Davis some time before he came to Philly. Jesus H. Christ! That's like the pope meeting with the bus driver that told Rosa Parks to stand up or get off the bus. What's next, the pope met with George Zimmerman? We are not but three days out from all the peace, love and understanding of #popeadelphia and now I'm picturing Kim Davis, red-faced, crying her eyes out, mouth open fish-like, holding hands with the pope. Jesus Chysler! I just threw up in my soul a little bit." - Warren Lipka [http://www.phawker.com/2015/10/01/fact-when-the-pope-met-kim-davis-jesus-wept/] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin Oct. 1, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 23, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 23, 2016 "Gun control ends gun violence as surely an antibiotics end bacterial infections, as surely as vaccines end childhood measles--not perfectly and in every case, but overwhelmingly and everywhere that it's been taken seriously and tried at length. These lives can be saved. Kids continue to die en masse because one political party won't allow that to change, and the party won't allow it to change because of the irrational and often paranoid fixations that make the massacre of students and children an acceptable cost of fetishizing guns." - Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 10/2/2015 Submitted by: Dorene Smith Oct. 12, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 22, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 22, 2016 "Every man identifies with Hamlet, it has been said, since every man imagines himself a disinherited monarch; every woman identifies with Alice, since every woman sees herself as the sole sane person in a world filled with lunatics who imagine themselves disinherited monarchs." - Adam Gopnik [http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/who-can-be-finished-with-alice] Submitted by: Jean Rogers Oct. 14, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 21, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 21, 2016 "It's crazy that once personal video recorders became ubiquitous UFOs stopped visiting Earth and cops started brutalizing people all the time" - Stephen Judkins, via Twitter. Submitted by: Steve Sidner Nov. 3, 2015

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Quotation of the day for January 14, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 14, 2016 "A new idea had come into being: "economic man"--a pale wraith of a creature who followed his adding-machine brain wherever it led him. The textbooks would soon come to talk of Robinson Crusoes on desert isles who organized their affairs as if they were so many penny-pinching accountants." - Robert Heilbroner, on economics theories, from his book The Worldly Philosophers. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 13, 2016

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Quotation of the day for January 10, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 10, 2016 "It is a direct invasion of public space. It lays the counting, the pacing, the controlled frenzy, the Familiar undergarment-outergarments and skeletal look, on top of the ordinary practice of an outdoor walk. One thing that can be said for a gym is that an implied contract links everyone who works out in its mirrored and pungent hangar. All consent to undertake separate exertions and hide any mutual regard, as in a well-ordered masturbatorium. The gym is in this sense more polite than the narrow riverside, street, or nature path, wherever runners take over shared places for themselves. With his speed and narcissistic intensity the runner corrupts the space of walking, thinking, talking, and everyday contact. He jostles the idler out of his reverie. He races between pedestrians in conversation. The runner can oppose sociability and solitude by publicly sweating on them." - Mark Greif, from his [wrong-headed -eds.] essay Against Exercise. Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 8, 2016

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Quotation of the day for January 9, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 9, 2016 "Last year, 44 Americans were shot by Muslim terrorists. By comparison, 52 Americans were shot by toddlers. Which raises the question: Why isn't the government doing more to protect us from toddlers? Think about it. They don't share our values. They barely speak English. They steal our welfare. They have no marketable skills. They're prone to angry outbursts. Worst of all? Most of them aren't even Christians. How long until we say enough is enough and deport these free-loading parasites once and for all???" - Jeremy McLellan, comedian. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 8, 2016

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Quotation of the day for January 4, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 4, 2016 "You know, I never gave George W Bush enough credit for what he's done in the Middle East," Luttwak continued. "I failed to appreciate at the time that he was a strategic genius far beyond Bismarck. He ignited a religious war between Shi'ites and Sunnis that will occupy the region for the next 1,000 years. It was a pure stroke of brilliance!" - Edward Luttwak, strategist and consultant, from an interview with Thomas Meaney. [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/09/edward-luttwak-machiavelli-of-maryland] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Jan. 3, 2016

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Quotation of the day for January 3, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 3, 2016 "It isn't good for us to flee from any moment of boredom by going to a phone." - Sherry Turkle, author of "Reclaiming Conversation". [http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-16-2015-1.3320565/smartphones-hurt-our-face-to-face-relationships-says-sherry-turkle-1.3320628] Submitted by: Terry Labach Jan. 2, 2016

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Quotation of the day for January 2, 2016

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Quotation of the Day for January 2, 2016 "Kolniyatsch was born, last of a long line of rag-pickers, in 1886. At the age of nine he had already acquired that passionate alcoholism which was to have so great an influence in the moulding of his character and on the trend of his thought. Otherwise he does not seem to have shown in childhood any exceptional promise. It was not before his eighteenth birthday that he murdered his grandmother and was sent to that asylum in which he wrote the poems and plays belonging to what we now call his earlier manner." - Max Beerbohm, from his story Kolniyatsch (1913). Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Dec. 8, 2015

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