Growing wiser on the wisdom (or stupidity) of others
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

First Post with New Version of Blogger

QuotesBlog's migration to the new version of Blogger is complete!

"Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.

See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland."

-- Isaiah 43:18-19
via Bible Gateway, New International Version

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Friday, November 17, 2006

Avoid Small Thinkers

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

The Holidays are Coming

"The hardest thing is to disguise your feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home." -- iheartquotes, via Twitter

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Monday, October 30, 2006

What The Ocho Cinco Do

"He can't do what 'Ocho Cinco' do!" -- Chad Johnson, Cincinnati Bengals Wide Receiver, referring to Atlanta Falcons cornerback DeAngelo Hall last week in their ongoing war of words.

via FOX Sports NFL - Manic Monday: It's all over for some

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Loving in an Unloving World

"By loving, forgiving, and serving, it is possible for your whole life to become one single vision of the sublime beauty of God." -- Hazrat Inayat Khan

spotted at Insytworks

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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

It's Funny Because It's True

"Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A." -- iheartquotes, via Twitter post

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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Get Famous Quotes via Text Messaging

Biz Stone recently made "iheartquotes" a Twitter friend so that he could receive famous quotes on his cell phone. But he's also made it available to other Twitter users, such as yours truly. You know I'm a quotation junkie!

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Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Guess who thinks they own POD? Not Peas!

"While Apple, of course, has no general objection to proper use of the descriptive term 'podcast' as part of a trademark for goods and services offered in the podcasting field, it cannot allow marks that go beyond this legitimate use and infringe on Apple's rights in POD and IPOD." -- Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, attorneys for Apple Computer, Inc., in a letter to Tim Shen, attorney for Podcast Ready

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What do you think of when someone mentions POD?

"Moreover, the term POD has also been adopted and used extensively in the marketplace by consumers as an abbreviation to refer to Apple's IPOD player." -- Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, attorneys for Apple Computer, Inc., in a letter to Tim Shen, attorney for Podcast Ready

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Sunday, September 24, 2006

Typographical Errors

"Bad typing corrupts good characters." -- Dan Johnson, Jr.

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Thursday, August 31, 2006

Tranquilize Your Mind - The Healthy Way

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." -- Mary Shelley

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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Your Predominant Duty

"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it." -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), American feminist and reformer, via e-mail from thefreedictionary.com

crossposted to Get That Job!

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Monday, June 12, 2006

Government Drunkenness

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving teenage boys whiskey and car keys." -- Anonymous P.J. O'Rourke

submitted via e-mail by Jordan Wagner, Sublette, Kansas

Thanks to Steve Miller for helping find the source.


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Miss Piggy on Beauty

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? Sometimes you'll have to give a dumb or misinformed beholder a black eye." -- Miss Piggy

submitted via e-mail by Jordan Wagner, Sublette, KS - THANKS!

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Monday, June 05, 2006

Idiots and Congress

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But, I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain

submitted via e-mail by Jordan Wagner, Sublette, KS - THANKS!

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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Grace Under Pressure

"Courage is grace under pressure." -- Ernest Hemingway

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Monday, May 15, 2006

Mark Twain on Vegetables

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." -- Mark Twain

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spotted at Ed's Mixed Bag

Mark Twain on Reading

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." -- Mark Twain

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spotted at Ed's Mixed Bag

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Oscar Wilde on Experience

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde

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Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Anonymous Tips for Success

"The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others." -- Anonymous

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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Bill Cosby on Naming Your Child

"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry." -- Bill Cosby

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Picasso and the Usefulness of Computers

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso

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Mark Twain on Excess

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs." -- Mark Twain

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Solitude and Idleness

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle." -- Samuel Johnson

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George Carlin - Weatherman

"Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning." -- George Carlin

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Success and the Fuzzy Line Between Work and Play

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." -- Warren Beatty

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Friday, April 07, 2006

How to Become Famous Fast

"The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous." -- Walter Winchell, journalist and radio broadcaster, born on April 7, 1897 in New York City

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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Whoopi on Movie Titles

"I thought Dead Man Walking was a documentary about Keith Richards." -- Whoopi Goldberg, while hosting the Academy Awards

via USA Today's 78th Academy Awards Host Quiz

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Dudley Moore as Host of the Oscars

"My pants are killing me." -- Dudley Moore, while hosting the Academy Awards

via USA Today's 78th Academy Awards Host Quiz

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Thursday, January 05, 2006

I Guess That's Good Medical Advice

"I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places." -- Henny Youngman

via Funny Quote of the Day

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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Life Defined

"Life is a series of answers determined by the questions that we ask." -- Bradd Morgan

via e-mail from Bradd

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Become the Bridge

"The gap between where you are and where you want to be is bridged by
your values. Define your values, become the bridge, act on them, truly live."
-- Bradd Morgan

via e-mail from Bradd

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What Intimacy Problem?

"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me." -- Garry Shandling

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via Funny Quote of the Day