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qotD = new Array
qotD[0] = "Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. <br/>&mdash; Thomas A. Edison"
qotD[1] = "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[2] = "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[3] = "Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet. <br/>&mdash; Charles Swindoll"
qotD[4] = "To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[5] = "The business of America is business. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[6] = "Wisdom is supreme; therefore, make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 4:7-8"
qotD[7] = "Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all&mdash;the apathy of human beings. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[8] = "The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches. <br/>&mdash; Harold H. Greene"
qotD[9] = "Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[10] = "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[11] = "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. <br/>&mdash; Ralph W. Stockman"
qotD[12] = "If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[13] = "I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[14] = "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. <br/>&mdash; Thich Nhat Hanh"
qotD[15] = "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. <br/>&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi"
qotD[16] = "Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. <br/>&mdash; Victor Hugo"
qotD[17] = "Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[18] = "There are winners, there are losers, and there are people who have not yet learned how to win. <br/>&mdash; Les Brown"
qotD[19] = "No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[20] = "Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing. <br/>&mdash; Michael Phillips"
qotD[21] = "One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[22] = "I'm convinced that a lot of people simply don't know what's available out there and how it is possible to find a job and work your way up if you are willing to accept responsibility for your life. I know what it's like to be on the bottom. I've been broke. I've been fired seven times from jobs. And I don't even have a college degree. But, I didn't blame anyone else for my problems. I knew that if I didn't try to solve them on my own or with the help of friends or family members, no one else was going to take care of me. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[23] = "Wise care keeps what it has gained. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[24] = "What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple&mdash;a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law. <br/>&mdash; Pat Buchanan"
qotD[25] = "It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. <br/>&mdash; Paulo Coelho"
qotD[26] = "In seeking wisdom the first step is silence, the second: listening, the third: remembering, the fourth: practicing, the fifth: teaching others. <br/>&mdash; Rabbi ibn-Gavrioel"
qotD[27] = "I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking. It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature. There are not hothouse blossoms that can compare in beauty and fragrance with my bouquet of wildflowers. <br/>&mdash; Laura Ingalls Wilder"
qotD[28] = "One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. <br/>&mdash; George Eliot"
qotD[29] = "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit of Happiness: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. <br/>&mdash; Declaration of Independence"
qotD[30] = "You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary. <br/>&mdash; Jeff Foxworthy"
qotD[31] = "We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. <br/>&mdash; William James"
qotD[32] = "Living in debt is nerve-wracking, insomnia-producing, and family-wrecking. Just don't do it. There is nothing you can buy that feels as good as being in debt feels bad. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[33] = "We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. <br/>&mdash; William James"
qotD[34] = "Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[35] = "I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living, but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[36] = "People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[37] = "Don't bother just to be better than your counterparts or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. <br/>&mdash; William Faulkner"
qotD[38] = "What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[39] = "Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. <br/>&mdash; Henry Wheeler Shaw"
qotD[40] = "Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back. <br/>&mdash; Princess Diana of Wales"
qotD[41] = "Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[42] = "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[43] = "You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[44] = "Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit&mdash;and man is his own gardener. <br/>&mdash; James Allen"
qotD[45] = "For in a Republic, who is &quot;the country?&quot; Is it Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant&mdash;merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[46] = "If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Maslow"
qotD[47] = "I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[48] = "You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want. <br/>&mdash; Zig Ziglar"
qotD[49] = "Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[50] = "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[51] = "The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Psalm 12:8"
qotD[52] = "When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[53] = "The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. <br/>&mdash; Lin Yutang"
qotD[54] = "Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy. <br/>&mdash; Martha Washington"
qotD[55] = "The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Hawking"
qotD[56] = "Love conquers all things, except poverty and toothache. <br/>&mdash; Mae West"
qotD[57] = "I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. <br/>&mdash; Davy Crockett"
qotD[58] = "The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. <br/>&mdash; William James"
qotD[59] = "Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, &quot;Yes,&quot; and hope will reappear. <br/>&mdash; Monroe Forester"
qotD[60] = "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies. <br/>&mdash; J. K. Rowling"
qotD[61] = "Believe in something larger than yourself... Get involved in the big ideas of your time. <br/>&mdash; Barbara Bush"
qotD[62] = "It has been my philosophy in life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. <br/>&mdash; Isaac Asimov"
qotD[63] = "The difference between the impossible and possible lies in a person's determination. <br/>&mdash; Tommy Lasorda"
qotD[64] = "We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[65] = "We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[66] = "If you're interested in &quot;balancing&quot; work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead, make your work more pleasurable. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[67] = "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[68] = "Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[69] = "An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it. <br/>&mdash; Joel Spolsky"
qotD[70] = "If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to steel, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho' it be in the woods. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[71] = "There are plenty of ways to get ahead. The first is so basic, I'm almost embarrassed to say it: spend less than you earn. <br/>&mdash; Paul Clitheroe"
qotD[72] = "When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[73] = "Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life, have been the consequence of action without thought. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Baruch"
qotD[74] = "To get rich, never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth. <br/>&mdash; Richard Baker"
qotD[75] = "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. <br/>&mdash; William Arthur Ward"
qotD[76] = "Wisdom is not in the eye, but in the head. <br/>&mdash; West African Proverb"
qotD[77] = "A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal. <br/>&mdash; Yiddish Proverb"
qotD[78] = "A pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[79] = "Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[80] = "If you wish to know a man, place him in authority. <br/>&mdash; Yugoslav Proverb"
qotD[81] = "Work like you don't need the money, love like your heart has never been broken, and dance like no one is watching. <br/>&mdash; Aurora Greenway"
qotD[82] = "The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[83] = "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[84] = "The government is only as good and as smart and as honest as we are. <br/>&mdash; Glenn Beck"
qotD[85] = "Money is like an arm or leg&mdash;use it or lose it. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[86] = "You know, not too long ago, I was asked to explain the difference between a small businessman and a big businessman. And my answer was that a big businessman is what a small businessman would be if only the government would get out of the way and leave him alone. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[87] = "The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, &quot;branches,&quot; since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[88] = "If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[89] = "Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting. <br/>&mdash; Aldous Huxley"
qotD[90] = "More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. <br/>&mdash; Robert Orben"
qotD[91] = "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[92] = "The biggest shock when I lost it all was the realization that so much of my life had been out of my control. When I started to make the money back, I vowed that it would never happen again. I bought things only when I could afford them. There was no big mortgage, no cars on hire purchase. I remember buying a TR6 sports car for &pound;6,000, and funnily enough, it gave me more pleasure than the Porsche ever had. <br/>&mdash; Simon Cowell"
qotD[93] = "If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[94] = "Business is a means&mdash;the only means&mdash;to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. <br/>&mdash; Ludwig von Mises"
qotD[95] = "Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[96] = "Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. <br/>&mdash; Swedish Proverb"
qotD[97] = "If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. <br/>&mdash; Socrates"
qotD[98] = "When we were growing up, we were so poor that our heritage was the only thing we had. Mama would say, &quot;Kids, pour more water in the soup. Better days are coming.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Ashley Judd"
qotD[99] = "Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. <br/>&mdash; Virginia Woolf"
qotD[100] = "Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. <br/>&mdash; Blaine Lee"
qotD[101] = "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, an competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[102] = "If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. <br/>&mdash; John Paul Jones"
qotD[103] = "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. <br/>&mdash; Erma Bombeck"
qotD[104] = "Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[105] = "Prices are important not because money is considered paramount, but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[106] = "Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[107] = "A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[108] = "Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. <br/>&mdash; Richard Halloway"
qotD[109] = "In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. <br/>&mdash; Flora Edwards"
qotD[110] = "A little kinship is better than a lot of charity.<br/>&mdash; Irish Proverb"
qotD[111] = "Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. <br/>&mdash; William E. Gladstone"
qotD[112] = "The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[113] = "If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[114] = "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[115] = "There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride, which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.  <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[116] = "I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[117] = "There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[118] = "Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. <br/>&mdash; Sandra Day O'Connor"
qotD[119] = "The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[120] = "He who cannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people. <br/>&mdash; Czech Proverb"
qotD[121] = "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[122] = "Socialism in its beginnings was frankly authoritarian. <br/>&mdash; Friedrich Hayek"
qotD[123] = "I have always believed that America is strongest and freest and happiest when it is truest to the wisdom of its Founders. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[124] = "Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. <br/>&mdash; Richard Nixon"
qotD[125] = "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[126] = "I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[127] = "Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[128] = "Failures are divided into two classes&mdash;those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. <br/>&mdash; John Charles Salak"
qotD[129] = "Happiness is good health and a bad memory. <br/>&mdash; Ingrid Bergman"
qotD[130] = "If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Billy Graham"
qotD[131] = "Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. <br/>&mdash; Shelby Steele"
qotD[132] = "People come to Washington believing it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine. <br/>&mdash; Richard Goodwin"
qotD[133] = "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[134] = "I subscribe to William Faulkner's view that history is not just about what we were before, but who we are now. <br/>&mdash; Ken Burns"
qotD[135] = "You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. <br/>&mdash; Bill Cosby"
qotD[136] = "Trouble is part of your life&mdash;if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. <br/>&mdash; Dinah Shore"
qotD[137] = "You know, intellectuals are often the ones that are more surprised by the truth and the outcome of events than anyone else. I think that's because they live in their own little world of affected speech. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[138] = "We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. <br/>&mdash; Earl Nightingale"
qotD[139] = "Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. <br/>&mdash; Pierre Joseph Proudhon"
qotD[140] = "Passion is the genesis of genius. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[141] = "A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[142] = "Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. <br/>&mdash; Johnny Cash"
qotD[143] = "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. <br/>&mdash; Pearl S. Buck"
qotD[144] = "Why are people starving? Because the rulers eat up the money in taxes. Therefore, the people are starving. <br/>&mdash; Lao Tzu"
qotD[145] = "We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others. <br/>&mdash; Fran&ccedil;ois de la Rochefoucauld"
qotD[146] = "A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. <br/>&mdash; Petrarch"
qotD[147] = "Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[148] = "Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. <br/>&mdash; Alexander Pope"
qotD[149] = "The US Constitution does not guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[150] = "No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. <br/>&mdash; Booker T. Washington"
qotD[151] = "Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[152] = "All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas&mdash;not money. <br/>&mdash; Robert Collier"
qotD[153] = "Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. <br/>&mdash; Kenneth Hildebrand"
qotD[154] = "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[155] = "The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power. <br/>&mdash; Roy Moore"
qotD[156] = "Poverty is the open-mouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. <br/>&mdash; Henry George"
qotD[157] = "Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable. <br/>&mdash; Michel Eyquem de Montaigne"
qotD[158] = "God gives the nuts, but He does not crack them. <br/>&mdash; German Proverb"
qotD[159] = "You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[160] = "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[161] = "You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. <br/>&mdash; Fran Lebowitz"
qotD[162] = "In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot, and a mom. <br/>&mdash; Barbara Costikyan"
qotD[163] = "We do not live in the past, but the past in us. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[164] = "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. <br/>&mdash; Will Smith"
qotD[165] = "We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[166] = "A government big enough to supply you with everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have. <br/>&mdash; Gerald R. Ford"
qotD[167] = "The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[168] = "Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait 'til all were agreed. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[169] = "The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. <br/>&mdash; Plato"
qotD[170] = "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[171] = "Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[172] = "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[173] = "Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are. <br/>&mdash; Bill Gates"
qotD[174] = "A man without a goal is like a ship without rudder. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[175] = "Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units with each unit of effort <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[176] = "Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[177] = "Charming people live up to the very edge of their chair, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[178] = "A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Leonard"
qotD[179] = "Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[180] = "I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God&mdash;I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[181] = "America is about a dynamic, shifting, mobile world of opportunity where everyone has a chance to build a better mousetrap or bake a bigger pie. Group rights is a concept that fits a static world in which limited resources have to be carefully allocated by government. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[182] = "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[183] = "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property &mdash; until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[184] = "If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential&mdash;for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility, never. <br/>&mdash; S&oslash;ren Kierkegaard"
qotD[185] = "He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 17:5"
qotD[186] = "Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals, they dispute and cannot unite&mdash;but they all worship money. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[187] = "A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[188] = "What you give you get, ten times over. <br/>&mdash; Yoruba Proverb"
qotD[189] = "There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[190] = "Money often costs too much. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[191] = "Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and will always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. <br/>&mdash; Eugene O'Neill"
qotD[192] = "Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. <br/>&mdash; John Wayne"
qotD[193] = "What kind of country is this going to be when 23-year-olds want to work for government -- not just because that's where the big money, the big benefits and the big health care plans are, but because that's where the lifetime security is? The American Dream now is to work for the DMV! <br/>&mdash; Mark Steyn"
qotD[194] = "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word&mdash;excellence. To know how to do something is to enjoy it. <br/>&mdash; Pearl S. Buck"
qotD[195] = "Only a life lived for others is worth living. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[196] = "We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others. <b/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[197] = "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[198] = "Character matters; leadership descends from character. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[199] = "Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[200] = "I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[201] = "Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. <br/>&mdash; Tryon Edwards"
qotD[202] = "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. <br/>&mdash; Rene Descartes"
qotD[203] = "Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if th edevil himself gives better wages, they soon chage their party. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[204] = "Everybody's property is nobody's property. Wealth that is free for all is valued by none because he who is foolhardy enough to wait for its proper time of use will only find that it has been taken by another. The blade of grass that the manorial cowherd leaves behind is valueless to him, for tomorrow it may be eaten by another animal; the oil left under the earth is valueless to the driller, for another may legally take it; the fish in the sea are valueless to the fisherman, because there is no assurance that they will be there for him tomorrow if they are left behind today. <br/>&mdash; Scott Gordon"
qotD[205] = "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. <br/>&mdash; William James"
qotD[206] = "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[207] = "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. <br/>&mdash; Thomas A. Edison"
qotD[208] = "If there's an opportunity to pursue your goal, recognize and seize it. <br/>&mdash; Mark Levin"
qotD[209] = "O money, money, how blindly thou has been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend! <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[210] = "Even on the most exalted throne in the world, we are only sitting on our own bottom. <br/>&mdash; Michel de Montaigne"
qotD[211] = "Whatever you have, spend less. <br/>&mdash; William Samuel Johnson"
qotD[212] = "Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[213] = "I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[214] = "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[215] = "If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. <br/>&mdash; Jewish Proverb"
qotD[216] = "Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. <br/>&mdash; Wayne Dyer"
qotD[217] = "All great achievements require time. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[218] = "If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. <br/>&mdash; Thomas More"
qotD[219] = "You are not engaging in collective bargaining when you're a public employee union member -- you're just shaking down your fellow citizens. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[220] = "Family is the most important thing in the world. <br/>&mdash; Princess Diana of Wales"
qotD[221] = "In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[222] = "Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[223] = "It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[224] = "The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. <br/>&mdash; Dave Barry"
qotD[225] = "The Constitution does not provide for first- and second-class citizens. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Willkie"
qotD[226] = "My manager had a reputation for being frugal, which I admired, being frugal myself. But this time, he outdid himself. His daughter had helped decorate a school homecoming float, inserting thousands of paper towels in the wire to create a beautiful float. After the parade, my manager had the kids park the float in his driveway, where he meticulously removed all the paper towels from the float, folded them neatly, and stacked them in his basement to serve as his lifetime supply of paper towels. <br/>&mdash; Gayle Tweeton Parsons"
qotD[227] = "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[228] = "Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. <br/>&mdash; Henry J. Kaiser"
qotD[229] = "The Cuban government has not only eliminated the concept of unemployment, it's eliminated the concept of jobs, if you don't count begging or pestering strangers to buy &quot;genuine Cohiba cigars&quot; that &quot;a good friend of mine sneaks out of the factory.&quot; Either the fellow who sneaks Cohibas out of the factory has an unusual number of good friends, or Cohiba-sneaking is Cuba's largest industry. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[230] = "In the lexicon of the political class, the word &quot;sacrificeQuot; means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[231] = "However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. <br/>&mdash; Henrey David Thoreau"
qotD[232] = "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting aginst it is really cooperating with it. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[233] = "Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out. <br/>&mdash; William F. Buckley, Jr."
qotD[234] = "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. <br/>&mdash; Bill Vaughan"
qotD[235] = "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. <br/>&mdash; Walt Disney"
qotD[236] = "When a man's stomach is full, it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. <br/>&mdash; Euripides"
qotD[237] = "Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[238] = "Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[239] = "Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. <br/>&mdash; Robert G. Allen"
qotD[240] = "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[241] = "The Left tells you about the Constitution every time they want to restrict your rights. If you want to put up a monument to the Ten Commandments, the Left says that's against the Constitution. As long as the Left dominates, the only time the Constitution is cited is when they are restricting your rights. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[242] = "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do wiht the time we have rushed through life trying to save. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[243] = "An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[244] = "Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[245] = "It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[246] = "In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy? <br/>&mdash; Jessamyn West"
qotD[247] = "What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thusand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[248] = "Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[249] = "Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. <br/>&mdash; John Quincy Adams"
qotD[250] = "Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[251] = "Generosity is the flower of justice. <br/>&mdash; Nathaniel Hawthorne"
qotD[252] = "Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Disraeli"
qotD[253] = "The best horse doesn't always win the race. <br/>&mdash; Irish Proverb"
qotD[254] = "What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[255] = "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[256] = "You don't have to spend much time in Washington to appreciate the prophetic vision of the man who designed all the streets there. They go in circles. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[257] = "It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. <br/>&mdash; Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
qotD[258] = "Read the rich list in Forbes. When you see all these people with all different kinds of money, it will make you feel inadequate and keep you focused. <br/>&mdash; Damon Dash"
qotD[259] = "Things that never happen are often as much realities to us in their effects as those that are accomplished. <br/>&mdash; Charles Dickens"
qotD[260] = "Avarice is like a pig which seeks its food in the mud, without caring where it comes from. <br/>&mdash; St. Jean Vianney"
qotD[261] = "A bum asked me, &quot;Give me $10 'til payday.&quot; I asked, &quot;When's payday?&quot; He said, &quot;I don't know, you're the one who is working! <br/>&mdash; Henny Youngman"
qotD[262] = "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. <br/>&mdash; Spanish Proverb"
qotD[263] = "A profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Disraeli"
qotD[264] = "The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[265] = "A man can be himself only so long as he is along; and, if he does not love solitiude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Schopenhauer"
qotD[266] = "Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... what we make of our talents is our gift back to God. <br/>&mdash; Leo Buscaglia"
qotD[267] = "Every man who rises in any profession must tread a path more or less bedewed by the tears of those he passes on his way. <br/>&mdash; Peter Bayne"
qotD[268] = "A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 18:2"
qotD[269] = "I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost eveyrthing, even nature. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[270] = "Remember, time is money. He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle, one half of that day, though he spends but sixpence during his diversion or idleness, ought not to reckon that the only expense; he has really spent, or rather thrown away, five shillings besides. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[271] = "In politics the middle way is none at all. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[272] = "As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought. <br/>&mdash; Tammy Bruce"
qotD[273] = "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[274] = "It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart. <br/>&mdash; Tom Selleck"
qotD[275] = "It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. <br/>&mdash; J.R.R. Tolkien"
qotD[276] = "I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[277] = "When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[278] = "The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[279] = "Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[280] = "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. <br/>&mdash; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
qotD[281] = "Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[282] = "I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. <br/>&mdash; Leo Rosten"
qotD[283] = "A race horse needs only a touch of the whip; a clever person needs only a hint. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[284] = "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. <br/>&mdash; Frank Zappa"
qotD[285] = "Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[286] = "Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[287] = "I had one fundamental question about economics: Why do some places prosper and thrive while others just suck? It's not a matter of brains. No part of the earth (with the possible exception of Brentwood) is dumber than Beverly Hills, and the residents are wading in gravy. In Russia, meanwhile, where chess is a spectator sport, they're boiling stones for soup. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[288] = "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[289] = "Before Thanksgiving brings out the worst in you, stop before you gripe. Give thanks for noisy houses, healthy children and overflowing company. Give thanks for bounteous tables, rambunctious friends and neighbors, life and limb. And give thanks for those who give of themselves&mdash;in service to our nation, in civic duty, and in answer to His call&mdash;all year 'round. That is all. <br/>&mdash; Michelle Malkin"
qotD[290] = "The longer we live, the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[291] = "Precisely because our rights are endowed by our Creator, the individual burden of responsibility borne by each citizen is greater than in any other country. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[292] = "Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[293] = "Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions. Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly God, and they would be kindly in any case. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[294] = "The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it. <br/>&mdash; Ty Cobb"
qotD[295] = "If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[296] = "If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you. <br/>&mdash; Charles Kingsley"
qotD[297] = "Many years ago, Rudyard Kipling gave an address at McGill University in Montreal. He said one striking thing which deserves to be remembered. Warning the students against an over-concern for money, or position, or glory, he said: &quot;Some day you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Halford E. Luccock"
qotD[298] = "Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition. <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[299] = "Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would enoble, and our interest in all that would enrich an beatify our life. <br/>&mdash; Phillips Brooks"
qotD[300] = "I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[301] = "To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. <br/>&mdash; Ghose Aurobindo"
qotD[302] = "Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.  <br/>&mdash; Heywood Hale Broun"
qotD[303] = "I heard a Baghdad resident, on the news, say that, &quot;Our God will help us win the war.&quot; The only failing of that attestation is that I, a United States resident, say, &quot;Our God will help us win the war, and my God is bigger than yours.&quot; <br/>&mdash; E. Michael Gutman"
qotD[304] = "What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[305] = "What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary. <br/>&mdash; Hillel"
qotD[306] = "For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love they neighbor as theyself. <br/>&mdash; <br/>&mdash; Bible, Galatians 5:13-14"
qotD[307] = "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? <br/>&mdash; Jean Jacques Rousseau"
qotD[308] = "Curiosity regarding the meaning of life is man's nature. Whether the questions are asked via scientific, religious, or nihilistic pursuits, however, the answer remains the same: Do no harm to others. <br/>&mdash; Ellis Praecox"
qotD[309] = "It is well known, that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king. <br/>&mdash; Desiderius Erasmus"
qotD[310] = "He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore, if a reputation is not carefully preserved, it dies quickly. <br/>&mdash; Benedict Spinoza"
qotD[311] = "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[312] = "I think, myself, that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[313] = "A popular Government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[314] = "There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Jackson"
qotD[315] = "Generosity is the flower of justice. <br/>&mdash; Nathaniel Hawthorne"
qotD[316] = "I do not like giving advice, because it is an unnecessary responsibility under any circumstances. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Disraeli"
qotD[317] = "Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. <br/>&mdash; Tom Clancy"
qotD[318] = "There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Billy Graham"
qotD[319] = "Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants of God's goodness. <br/>&mdash; Hugh Miller"
qotD[320] = "We work as much from antagonism as from inspiration. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[321] = "America cannot be the great nation it was destined to be, unless we restore to it the faith in the old American principle of resourceful, resolute human beings standing as individuals. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[322] = "Do not speak of your happiness to a man less fortuante than yourself. <br/>&mdash; Plutarch"
qotD[323] = "Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[324] = "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safe in th elong run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[325] = "The man in jest is the key to the man in earnest. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[326] = "If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[327] = "It is when you come close to a man in conversation that you discover what his real abilities are. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[328] = "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[329] = "Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement, and remuneration based on ability. <br/>&mdash; Sandra Day O'Connor"
qotD[330] = "I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[331] = "They who reject the testimony of self-evident truths will find nothing surer on which to build. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[332] = "Whatever I have tried to do in my life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. Never to put one hand to anything on which I would throw my whole self, and never to affect depreciation of my work, whatever it was, I find now to have been golden rules. <br/>&mdash; Charles Dickens"
qotD[333] = "I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the good Lord must have wanted me to have it. <br/>&mdash; Larry Bird"
qotD[334] = "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[335] = "No one who is a lover of riches, or a lover of pleasure, or a lover of glory, can at the same time be a lover of men. <br/>&mdash; Epictetus"
qotD[336] = "Remember: There is no shortage; money is energy and you are energy and there is plenty of both. <br/>&mdash; Stuart Wilde"
qotD[337] = "That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise; the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[338] = "A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[339] = "I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me&mdash;they're cramming for their final exam. <br/>&mdash; George Carlin"
qotD[340] = "But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benvolent arrangment the greater part of life is sunshine. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[341] = "I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to let your energies stagnate. <br/>&mdash; Adam Clarke"
qotD[342] = "Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. <br/>&mdash; Orson Welles"
qotD[343] = "It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[344] = "Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[345] = "Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous. <br/>&mdash; Lord Rosebery"
qotD[346] = "While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[347] = "As some herbs need to be crushed to give forth their sweetest odors, so some natures need to be tried by suffering to evoke the excellence that is in them. Grief is a common bond that unites hearts. It can knit hearts closer than happiness can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. The visitations of sorrow are universal. There beats not a heart that has not felt the force of affliction. There is not an eye but has witnessed many scenes of sorrow. <br/>&mdash; Edward Bulwer Lytton"
qotD[348] = "Let our children grow tall, and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[349] = "Roses have thorns and silver fountains mud. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[350] = "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. <br/>&mdash; Leo Buscaglia"
qotD[351] = "It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are&mdash;not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within&mdash;that you can begin to take control. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[352] = "The superior man will watch himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause for dissatisfaction with himself. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[353] = "No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[354] = "Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Schopenhauer"
qotD[355] = "There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood... Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. <br/>&mdash; W. Somerset Maugham"
qotD[356] = "Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce. <br/>&mdash; John Kenneth Galbraith"
qotD[357] = "Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent, but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money. <br/>&mdash; Robert Crichton"
qotD[358] = "However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. <br/>&mdash; Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt"
qotD[359] = "If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong. I do not say give them up, for they may be all you have, but conceal them like a vice lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. <br/>&mdash; Robert Louis Stevenson"
qotD[360] = "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it. <br/>&mdash; Edward A. Murphy, Jr."
qotD[361] = "I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. <br/>&mdash; Harry Emerson Fosdick"
qotD[362] = "If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. <br/>&mdash; Jonathan Swift"
qotD[363] = "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[364] = "A man ought to keep his friendships in constant repair. I look upon a day as lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Samuel Johnson"
qotD[365] = "Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[366] = "He does not possess wealth; it possess him. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[367] = "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[368] = "Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[369] = "Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are usually the result of chance and not of design. <br/>&mdash; Fran&ccedil;ois de la Rochefoucauld"
qotD[370] = "You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. <br/>&mdash; Pearl S. Buck"
qotD[371] = "Thrift was never more necessary in the world's history than it is today. <br/>&mdash; Francis H. Sisson"
qotD[372] = "Be thrifty, but not covetous. <br/>&mdash; George Herbert"
qotD[373] = "By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest. <br/>&mdash; Agesilaus"
qotD[374] = "Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. <br/>&mdash; S&oslash;ren Kierkegaard"
qotD[375] = "Wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. <br/>&mdash; Paulo Coelho"
qotD[376] = "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. <br/>&mdash; Alexis de Tocqueville"
qotD[377] = "A good wife and health is a man's best wealth. <br/>&mdash; English Proverb"
qotD[378] = "Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[379] = "That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[380] = "You can't trust anybody with power. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[381] = "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. <br/>&mdash; Jesus of Nazareth"
qotD[382] = "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. <br/>&mdash; John Locke"
qotD[383] = "Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[384] = "Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. <br/>&mdash; Lord Russell"
qotD[385] = "America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. <br/>&mdash; Arnold J. Toynbee"
qotD[386] = "Eat with the Rich, but go to the play with the Poor, who are capable of Joy. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[387] = "When the outlook is steeped in pessimism, I remind my self, &quot;Two and two still make four, and you can't keep mankind down for long. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Baruch"
qotD[387] = "Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Story"
qotD[387] = "Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. <br/>&mdash; Leon J. Suenes"
qotD[390] = "We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[391] = "It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[392] = "People constantly speak of &quot;the government&quot; doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[393] = "You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[394] = "Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[395] = "I never did anything worth doing by accident; nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. <br/>&mdash; Thomas A. Edison"
qotD[396] = "The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000&mdsh;to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[397] = "Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[398] = "Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[399] = "The Democratic Party does not accept that this country is broke. They think the richest 1% has all the money and, if we can just access it, we can pay for everything. <br/>&mdash; Mark Steyn"
qotD[400] = "A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[401] = "It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[402] = "Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. <br/>&mdash; Kahlil Gibran"
qotD[403] = "Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[404] = "One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact, it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[405] = "Thunder clods do not always give rain. <br/>&mdash; Armenian Proverb"
qotD[406] = "This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[407] = "But what is happiness except the single harmony between a man and the life he leads? <br/>&mdash; Lord Byron"
qotD[408] = "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[409] = "You have succeed in life when all you really want is only what you really want. <br/>&mdash; Vernon Howard"
qotD[410] = "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[411] = "The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. <br/>&mdash; Napoleon Hill"
qotD[412] = "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on th basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. <br/>&mdash; William Faulkner"
qotD[413] = "You cannot dream youself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[414] = "He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. <br/>&mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte"
qotD[415] = "To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: &quot;Leave no stone unturned.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Edward Bulwer Lytton"
qotD[416] = "Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[417] = "It's important to me that money not be important to me. <br/>&mdash; Les Brown"
qotD[418] = "When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. <br/>&mdash; Wayne Dyer"
qotD[419] = "The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go. <br/>&mdash; Humphrey Bogart"
qotD[420] = "Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or note. <br/>&mdash; Jerry Gellis"
qotD[421] = "I hate political correctness because it's founded on the idea that by means of language, you can escape truth&mdash;that if you simply give a different name to something, you've somehow changed it. It is a very childlike idea. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[422] = "I believe in the 'WalMart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it. <br/>&mdash; Garth Brooks"
qotD[423] = "Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. <br/>&mdash; John Kenneth Galbraith"
qotD[424] = "A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want. <br/>&mdash; William Binger"
qotD[425] = "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. <br/>&mdash; Ayn Rand"
qotD[426] = "I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. <br/>&mdash; Mike Todd"
qotD[427] = "We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end. <br/>&mdash; Owen Young"
qotD[428] = "People spend money when and where they feel good. <br/>&mdash; Walt Disney"
qotD[429] = "In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. <br/>&mdash; Sid Caesar"
qotD[430] = "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[431] = "Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. <br/>&mdash; Clint Eastwood"
qotD[432] = "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[433] = "I'd like to be rich enough so that I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off. <br/>&mdash; Andy Rooney"
qotD[434] = "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 17:22"
qotD[435] = "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how&mdash;the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[436] = "The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[437] = "The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[438] = "I beleive that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[439] = "A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[440] = "The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[441] = "Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[442] = "Not everything in man's life is summed up in the problem of food. Anyone who thinks that a civilization can be founded on bread alone makes a great mistake. No matter how much bread there is, it cannot produce a man: it can only nourish him. Life exists before food. Man's life comes from the very origin of life. Therefore, civilization does not follow the forms of production. All social life follows the action of life. <br/>&mdash; Toyohiko Kagawa"
qotD[443] = "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. <br/>&mdash; George Washington Carver"
qotD[444] = "Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[445] = "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. <br/>&mdash; Robert Frost"
qotD[446] = "When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Roosevelt"
qotD[447] = "Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[448] = "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. <br/>&mdash; Paul Valery"
qotD[449] = "He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. <br/>&mdash; Socrates"
qotD[450] = "It's time for ordinary Americans to come out of the shadows and remind Washington every day in words and actions that we are a sovereign nation, not a sanctuary nation. <br/>&mdash; Michelle Malkin"
qotD[451] = "There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. <br/>&mdash; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis"
qotD[452] = "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. <br/>&mdash; Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria"
qotD[453] = "Patriotism is rallying behind the country, regardless of party affiliation, to defeat Islamo-Fascism. Patriotism is supporting our troops on the battlefield, not undermining the mission and morale. But let there be no doubt about this. America will prevail. We're the same country that survived a bloody Civil War, defeated the Nazis and the Soviets. Each generation has a responsibility to the next. Our genertion will not dissappoint. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[454] = "One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[455] = "Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[456] = "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. <br/>&mdash;Virginia Woolf"
qotD[457] = "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance&mdash;the cheeful man will do more inteh same time, will do it better, willperserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[458] = "Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal&mdash;that there is no human relationship between master and slave. <br/>&mdash; Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy"
qotD[459] = "True compassion is measured by our own good works, not by how many tax dollars we spend to support a failed federal bureaucracy. We've learned that the only way to truly help people is to empower them to help themselves. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[460] = "I always tell my kids that God doesn't drive parked cars, so we'll talk about getting on the next road and gearing up for hard work to travel down it to reach new goals. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[461] = "Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments, and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense. <br/>&mdash; Walter E. Williams"
qotD[462] = "There can be no security where there is fear. <br/>&mdash; Felix Frankfurter"
qotD[463] = "Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[464] = "No matter the goal you have set&mdash;if you have not quit, you have not failed. <br/>&mdash; Laura Teresa Marquez"
qotD[465] = "It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. <br/>&mdash; Bill Gates"
qotD[466] = "Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[467] = "Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[468] = "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. <br/>&mdash; T. S. Elliot"
qotD[469] = "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. <br/>&mdash; Epictetus"
qotD[470] = "Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. <br/>&mdash; Norman Lear"
qotD[471] = "If a man knew where he would fall, he would spread straw there first. <br/>&mdash; Finnish Proverb"
qotD[472] = "What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[473] = "There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.  <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[474] = "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. <br/>&mdash; Dwight D. Eisenhower"
qotD[475] = "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[476] = "Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[477] = "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? <br/>&mdash; Charles M. Schulz"
qotD[478] = "Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[479] = "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[480] = "The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good, you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy, you will be good. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[481] = "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[482] = "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[483] = "If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart, don't worry about it. That's the way we learn. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[484] = "The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.You can put off until tomorrow, but tomorrow may never come. Where you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we make, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take. <br/>&mdash; Gloria Estefan"
qotD[485] = "But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms. <br/>&mdash; George MacDonald"
qotD[486] = "People may show jealousy, but hide their envy. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[487] = "The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[488] = "Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[489] = "Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche. <br/>&mdash; Victoria Billings"
qotD[490] = "I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just chekcing things out for awhile until I decide to take them back. <br/>&mdash; April Foiles"
qotD[491] = "The real contest is always between what you've one and what you're capbale of doing. You measure yourself agianst yourself and nobody else. <br/>&mdash; Geoffrey Gaberino"
qotD[492] = "One of these days they are going to remove so much of the &quot;hooey&quot; and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[493] = "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[494] = "Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. <br/>&mdash; Morris Mandel"
qotD[495] = "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. <br/>&mdash; Scott Adams"
qotD[496] = "One joy dispels a hundred cares. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[497] = "The trick is not how much pain you feel&mdash;but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses. <br/>&mdash; Erica Jong"
qotD[498] = "Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[499] = "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[500] = "We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[501] = "Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. <br/>&mdash; Oliver Goldsmith"
qotD[502] = "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved&mdash;loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Victor Hugo"
qotD[503] = "If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. <br/>&mdash; Charles Krauthammer"
qotD[504] = "The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer. <br/>&mdash; Robert Schmitt"
qotD[505] = "The ravaged face in the mirror hides the enchanting youth that is the real me. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[506] = "A hungry man is not a free man. <br/>&mdash; Adlai Stevenson"
qotD[507] = "Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. <br/>&mdash; St. Thomas Aquinas"
qotD[508] = "Life is a tragedy full of joy. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Malamud"
qotD[509] = "About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. <br/>&mdash; Herbert Hoover"
qotD[510] = "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. <br/>&mdash; Dorothy Parker"
qotD[511] = "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[512] = "Tell God the truth, but give the judge money. <br/>&mdash; Russian Proverb"
qotD[513] = "Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[514] = "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. <br/>&mdash; Leonardo da Vinci"
qotD[515] = "Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Levitt"
qotD[516] = "There is nothing too little for little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of havig as little misery and as much happiness as possible. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[517] = "Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man's outward circumstances. A man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. <br/>&mdash; William Barclay"
qotD[518] = "It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[519] = "Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teeage boys. P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[520] = "I'd like to live like a poor man, only with lots of money. <br/>&mdash; Pablo Picasso"
qotD[521] = "A redneck died and left his entire fortune to his beloved wife. She couldn't touch it until she was fourteen. <br/>&mdash; Jeff Foxworthy"
qotD[522] = "All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[523] = "Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it. <br/>&mdash; Russell H. Conwell"
qotD[524] = "God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[525] = "Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[526] = "Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[527] = "Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[528] = "It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[529] = "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[530] = "I had a nest egg, but I lost it gambling. I was betting I'd be dead by now. <br/>&mdash; Drew Carey"
qotD[531] = "If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their lives have one. <br/>&mdash; Albert Camus"
qotD[532] = "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[533] = "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. <br/>&mdash; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"
qotD[534] = "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. <br/>&mdash; Aldous Huxley"
qotD[535] = "The quality of a person's life is in direct proporation to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[536] = "I have found that when one is embarrassed, usually the shortest way to get through with it is to quit talking about it or thinging about it, and go at something else. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[537] = "Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[538] = "There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. <br/>&mdash; Lillian Eichler Watson"
qotD[539] = "Pursuing your passion is fulfilling and leads to financial freedom. <br/>&mdash; Robert G. Allen"
qotD[540] = "Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. <br/>&mdash; Blaise Pascal"
qotD[541] = "Short of genius, a rich man cannot even imagine poverty. <br/>&mdash; Charles Peguy"
qotD[542] = "Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[543] = "You don't see me at Vegas or at the races throwing my money around. I've got a government to support. <br/>&mdash; Bob Hope"
qotD[544] = "I believe it's important to remind ourselves that in dealing with the economy, we're dealing with human creativity. This insight has represented the underpinning of our economic expansion. We cut tax rates, reduced government regulation, and restrained Federal spending; and we unleashed the creativity of individuals and businesses. We gave them freedom to create; to keep the rewards of their own risk-taking and hard work; and to reach for new, bold ideas. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[545] = "This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[546] = "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[547] = "Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[548] = "The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[549] = "Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[550] = "Without discipline, there's no life at all. <br/>&mdash; Katharine Hepburn"
qotD[551] = "Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[552] = "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[553] = "It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[554] = "If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness&#8230;people would be fairer and happier. <br/>&mdash; Paulo Coelho"
qotD[555] = "It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. <br/>&mdash;Kin Hubbard"
qotD[556] = "Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 16:3"
qotD[557] = "I doubt if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and for power&mdash;power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. <br/>&mdash; Eric Hoffer"
qotD[558] = "Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely. <br/>&mdash; George Witkin"
qotD[559] = "It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[560] = "We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[561] = "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. <br/>&mdash; George Washington Carver"
qotD[562] = "Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. <br/>&mdash; Albert Schweitzer"
qotD[563] = "The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[564] = "You will never &quot;find&quot; time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. <br/>&mdash; Charles Bruxton"
qotD[565] = "What is tolerance?&mdash;it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly&mdash;that is the first law of nature. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[566] = "The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds. <br/>&mdash; James Cash Penney"
qotD[567] = "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. <br/>&mdash; Jack London"
qotD[568] = "Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Joyce Brothers"
qotD[569] = "All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Butler"
qotD[570] = "It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. <br/>&mdash; Lucretius"
qotD[571] = "I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. <br/>&mdash; Anatole France"
qotD[572] = "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[573] = "What a lot of things there are a man can do without. <br/>&mdash; Socrates"
qotD[574] = "I take Him shopping with me. I say, &quot;OK, Jesus, help me find a bargain.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Tammy Faye Bakker"
qotD[575] = "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. <br/>&mdash; Mohandas Gandhi"
qotD[576] = "Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[577] = "Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Paterson"
qotD[578] = "Dwell in possibility. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[579] = "The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[580] = "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. ...Every man who parrots the cry of &quot;stand by the President&quot; without adding the proviso &quot;so far as he serves the Republic&quot; takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[581] = "Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. <br/>&mdash; Dale Carnegie"
qotD[582] = "To be a successful gambler, you have to have a complete disregard for money. <br/>&mdash; Doyle Brunson"
qotD[583] = "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[584] = "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone. <br/>&mdash; Reba McEntire"
qotD[585] = "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[586] = "It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[587] = "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. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[588] = "No one expects us to agree on everything. But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and... a servant's heart. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[589] = "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. <br/>&mdash; Andy Rooney"
qotD[590] = "Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[591] = "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[592] = "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[593] = "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[594] = "We want a great country. That means as much achievement and as much accomplishment and as solid a moral code as we can have. Not that everybody's going to follow it, but we need the line. We need the guardrails. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[595] = "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. <br/>&mdash; Paulo Coelho"
qotD[596] = "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[597] = "Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[598] = "The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. <br/>&mdash; Oliver Wendell Holmes"
qotD[599] = "I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful. <br/>&mdash; Marilyn Monroe"
qotD[600] = "Creditors have better memories than debtors. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[601] = "Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. <br/>&mdash; Clarence Thomas"
qotD[602] = "We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. <br/>&mdash; Davy Crockett"
qotD[603] = "Just remember... when you think all is lost, the future remains. <br/>&mdash; Bob Goddard"
qotD[604] = "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[605] = "It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[606] = "I have great respect for money... I never get over the fact that sometimes I see more money being paid for a meal than my father earned in a week. <br/>&mdash; Sean Connery"
qotD[607] = "Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[608] = "Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. <br/>&mdash; Charles M. Schulz"
qotD[609] = "There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[610] = "The difference between divorce and legal separation is that a legal separation gives a husband time to hide his money. <br/>&mdash; Johnny Carson"
qotD[611] = "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[612] = "The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[613] = "Life is the sum of all your choices. <br/>&mdash; Albert Camus"
qotD[614] = "Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[615] = "If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. <br/>&mdash; J. Paul Getty"
qotD[616] = "Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[617] = "Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. <br/>&mdash; George Herman &quot;Babe&quot; Ruth"
qotD[618] = "I don't know of a place where prayer is more appropriate than in Washington, D.C. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[619] = "True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. <br/>&mdash; Petrarch"
qotD[620] = "The root of all evil is not money, it's boredom. <br/>&mdash; Paris Hilton"
qotD[621] = "Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal. <br/>&mdash; Julia Child"
qotD[622] = "Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws. He is obliged, consequently, to contribute his share to the expense of this protection; and to give his personal service, or an equivalent, when necessary. But no part of the property of any individual can, with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his own consent, or that of the representative body of the people. In fine, the people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have given their consent. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[623] = "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. <br/>&mdash; Sir James M. Barrie"
qotD[624] = "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. <br/>&mdash; William Ralph Inge"
qotD[625] = "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. <br/>&mdash; Anne Frank"
qotD[626] = "Life does not cease to be funny when people die anymore than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[627] = "There is no poverty that can overtake diligence. <br/>&mdash; Japanese Proverb"
qotD[628] = "Make the most of the best and the least of the worst. <br/>&mdash; Robert Louis Stevenson"
qotD[629] = "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. <br/>&mdash; George Horace Lorimer"
qotD[630] = "Let us be thankful for the fools, but for them the rest of us could not succeed. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[631] = "The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right. <br/>&mdash; Edward Simmons"
qotD[632] = "A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Roosevelt"
qotD[633] = "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Leacock"
qotD[634] = "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[635] = "The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[636] = "You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[637] = "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Disraeli"
qotD[638] = "Sometimes you need to look reality in the eye, and deny it. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[639] = "Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[640] = "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[641] = "Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built. <br/>&mdash; Brian Tracy"
qotD[642] = "The beautiful is less what one sees than what one dreams. <br/>&mdash; Belgian Proverb"
qotD[643] = "There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money, he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[644] = "It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Fuller"
qotD[645] = "A good leader takes a litte more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. <br/>&mdash; Arnold Glasow"
qotD[646] = "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[647] = "Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[648] = "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go... <br/>&mdash; Dr. Seuss"
qotD[649] = "It's not so much how busy you are&mdash;but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. <br/>&mdash; Marie O'Connor"
qotD[650] = "In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[651] = "Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. <br/>&mdash; Ayn Rand"
qotD[652] = "He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy. <br/>&mdash; George Matthew Adams"
qotD[653] = "You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me &quot;the writer of the Constitution of the United States.&quot; This was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[654] = "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[655] = "Those who have little, if they are good at managing, must be counted among the rich. <br/>&mdash; Socrates"
qotD[656] = "There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[657] = "A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Story"
qotD[658] = "Seize the day; trust as little as possible in tomorrow. <br/>&mdash; Horace"
qotD[659] = "Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. <br/>&mdash; Thornton Wilder"
qotD[660] = "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[661] = "There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. <br/>&mdash; Washington Irving"
qotD[662] = "Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy. <br/>&mdash; Izaak Walton"
qotD[663] = "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. <br/>&mdash; Franklin D. Roosevelt"
qotD[664] = "We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs. <br/>&mdash; Gloria Steinem"
qotD[665] = "No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. <br/>&mdash; James Cash Penney"
qotD[666] = "If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. <br/>&mdash; Henry Fielding"
qotD[667] = "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[668] = "Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. <br/>&mdash; Mignon McLaughlin"
qotD[669] = "Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money&mdash;or the want of money; but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Butler"
qotD[670] = "We ought to change the legend on our money from &quot;In God We Trust&quot; to &quot;In Money We Trust.&quot; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in our money these days than we do in God. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Hoppe"
qotD[671] = "A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[672] = "There are people who have money and people who are rich. <br/>&mdash; Coco Chanel"
qotD[673] = "A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such &quot;breaks&quot; are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready. <br/>&mdash; Lawrence Downs"
qotD[674] = "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. <br/>&mdash; Robert Graves"
qotD[675] = "I cannot afford to waste my time making money. <br/>&mdash; Louis Agassiz"
qotD[676] = "I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy. <br/>&mdash; Steve Martin"
qotD[677] = "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. <br/>&mdash; Henry Miller"
qotD[678] = "A word without thought is like a foot without muscle. <br/>&mdash; Rabbi Moshe ibn-Ezra"
qotD[679] = "Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[680] = "Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely. <br/>&mdash; Thomas P. Murphy"
qotD[681] = "Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. <br/>&mdash; Norman R. Augustine"
qotD[682] = "And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[683] = "Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual. <br/>&mdash; Walter E. Williams"
qotD[684] = "False friends leave you in times of trouble. <br/>&mdash; Aesop"
qotD[685] = "I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[686] = "All our dreams can come true&mdash;if we have the courage to pursue them. <br/>&mdash; Walt Disney"
qotD[687] = "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. <br/>&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi"
qotD[688] = "When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group&mdash;'We the People.' Those people&mdash;neighbors and friends, shopkeepers and laborers, farmers and craftsmen&mdash;do not have infinite patience. As a matter of fact, some 80 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt wrote these instructive words in his first message to the Congress: 'The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled, it burns like a consuming flame.' Well, perhaps that kind of wrath will be deserved if our answer to these serious problems is to repeat the mistakes of the past. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[689] = "What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. <br/>&mdash; Fran&ccedil;ois de la Rochefoucauld"
qotD[690] = "Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[691] = "Learning without thought is labor lost; though without learning is perilous. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[692] = "My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[693] = "Of two evils, choose neither. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[694] = "The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation. <br/>&mdash; Sandra Day O'Connor"
qotD[695] = "The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family&mdash;which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions&mdash;began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to &quot;help.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[696] = "Bipartisanship only happens after one side has been defeated. Ask the Japanese after World War II. Ask the Germans. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[697] = "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[698] = "Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[699] = "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[700] = "Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[701] = "Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[702] = "One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[703] = "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. <br/>&mdash; Dolly Parton"
qotD[704] = "All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out. <br/>&mdash; Ludwig von Mises"
qotD[705] = "A commissar in the Soviet Union went out to one of those state collective farms, grabbed the first worker he came to and said, &quot;Comrade, how are the crops?&quot; &quot;Oh,&quot; he said, &quot;Comrade Commissar, if we could put the potatoes in one pile, they would reach the foot of God.&quot; And the commissar said, &quot;This is the Soviet Union. There is no God.&quot; And he said, &quot;That's all right, there are no potatoes.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[706] = "The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance. <br/>&mdash; Shelby Steele"
qotD[707] = "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[708] = "I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. <br/>&mdash; Clint Eastwood"
qotD[709] = "If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. <br/>&mdash; Buddhist Proverb"
qotD[710] = "Don't find fault, find a remedy. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[711] = "Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[712] = "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? <br/>&mdash; George Carlin"
qotD[713] = "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[714] = "Even when people are more successful that they had imagined, nothing is ever achieved without giving something up. <br/>&mdash; Judith M. Bardwick"
qotD[715] = "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. <br/>&mdash; Niels Bohr"
qotD[716] = "We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. <br/>&mdash; Brigham Young"
qotD[717] = "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[718] = "When you are getting kicked from the rear, it means you're in front. <br/>&mdash; Bishop Fulton J. Sheen"
qotD[719] = "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belif is more likely to be foolish than sensible. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[720] = "Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it. <br/>&mdash; Rebecca Johnson"
qotD[721] = "If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. <br/>&mdash; John Atkinson"
qotD[722] = "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[723] = "The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth. <br/>&mdash; Marilyn vos Savant"
qotD[724] = "It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[725] = "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. <br/>&mdash; Leo Buscaglia"
qotD[726] = "Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[727] = "The noblest search is the search for excellence. <br/>&mdash; Lyndon B. Johnson"
qotD[728] = "Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[729] = "It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. <br/>&mdash; Frank Herbert"
qotD[730] = "I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[731] = "I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Young"
qotD[732] = "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[733] = "No human being is constituated to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. <br/>&mdash; William Osler"
qotD[734] = "Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. <br/>&mdash; Robert Orben"
qotD[735] = "Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. <br/>&mdash; John W. Gardner"
qotD[736] = "Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine. <br/>&mdash; Ray Charles"
qotD[737] = "Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. <br/>&mdash; Karl Kraus"
qotD[738] = "To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. <br/>&mdash; Charles de Montesquieu"
qotD[739] = "There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[740] = "There is no sin except stupidity. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[741] = "You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. <br/>&mdash; Billy Joel"
qotD[742] = "My friends, I've been an imperfect servant of my country for many years. But I've been her servant first, last and always. I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege. <br/>&mdash; John McCain"
qotD[743] = "The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[744] = "The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter. <br/>&mdash; Hendrik Van Loon"
qotD[745] = "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. <br/>&mdash; H. G. Wells"
qotD[746] = "Fortune's wheel is ever-turning. <br/>&mdash; Polish Proverb"
qotD[747] = "Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[748] = "I love those old sports movies, like &quot;Hoosiers&quot; and &quot;Rudy.&quot; Those that show that the underdog can make it and it's all about tenacity and work ethic and determination, and just doing the right thing. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[749] = "Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extend that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. <br/>&mdash; Rachel Maddow"
qotD[750] = "Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare, &quot;Twelfth Night&quot;"
qotD[751] = "Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[752] = "Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. <br/>&mdash; Ayn Rand"
qotD[753] = "Fortune knocks but once, misfortune has much more patience. <br/>&mdash; Jonathan Swift"
qotD[754] = "Toleration is the greatest gift of mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[755] = "It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[756] = "There is a spiritual hunger in the world today&mdash;and it cannot be satisfied by better cars on longer credit terms. <br/>&mdash; Adlai Stevenson"
qotD[757] = "Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[758] = "Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[759] = "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[760] = "Money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant. <br/>&mdash; P. T. Barnum"
qotD[761] = "Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot live. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[762] = "The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[763] = "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.<br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[764] = "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[765] = "Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[766] = "The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. <br/>&mdash; Harry Kemp"
qotD[767] = "It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. <br/>&mdash; Juvenal"
qotD[768] = "We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[769] = "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[770] = "You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. <br/>&mdash; Mark Victor Hansen"
qotD[771] = "Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[772] = "Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances. It is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[773] = "Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. <br/>&mdash; Earl Nightingale"
qotD[774] = "As society advances, the standard of poverty rises. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Parker"
qotD[775] = "Wealth and poverty are seen for what they are. It begins to be seen that the poor are only they who feel poor, and poverty consists in feeling poor. The rich, as we reckon them, and among them the very rich, in a true scale would be found very indigent and ragged. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[776] = "Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[777] = "There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. <br/>&mdash; Jack Kemp" 
qotD[778] = "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. <br/>&mdash; David Brinkley"
qotD[779] = "So act boldly, as if it's impossible to fail. If you keep adding fuel to your desire, you will reach the point of knowing that you'll never quit, and ultimate success will be nothing more than a matter of time. <br/>&mdash; Steve Pavlina"
qotD[780] = "Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[781] = "There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[782] = "It is true that bad things happen to good people. However, on the average, really bad things happen to bad people. <br/>&mdash; Thomas George"
qotD[783] = "I think you need people of principle, of character, that are leaders, that take stands on important tough issues that will affect the future of this country. <br/>&mdash; Sean Hannity"
qotD[784] = "He who borrows sells his freedom. <br/>&mdash; German Proverb"
qotD[785] = "What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[786] = "I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results. <br/>&mdash; Michael Jordan"
qotD[787] = "Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[788] = "Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. <br/>&mdash; Agatha Christie"
qotD[789] = "See, the whole theory behind this salary cap is if you're not performing well, and you're taking taxpayer money, then that should be reflected in lower wages. Of course, under that criteria, everybody in Congress should get like, what, two bucks an hour? <br/>&mdash; Jay Leno"
qotD[790] = "Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[791] = "I'm not real frugal or thrifty, ...I just don't waste money on little things that don't matter, but spend on big things that do. <br/>&mdash; Brian O'Reilly"
qotD[792] = "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[793] = "How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. <br/>&mdash; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
qotD[794] = "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. <br/>&mdash; Erma Bombeck"
qotD[795] = "Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. <br/>&mdash; Booker T. Washington"
qotD[796] = "Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's &quot;fair share&quot; of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[797] = "For the love of money is the root of all evil; and while some have coveted after it, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. <br/>&mdash; Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10"
qotD[798] = "It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Willkie"
qotD[799] = "American values will always win in the end. Politicians will come and go, but American values stay. <br/>&mdash; Glenn Beck"
qotD[800] = "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities. <br/>&mdash; Bruce Lee"
qotD[801] = "I am convinced that digestion is the great secret of life and that character, talents, virtues, and qualities are powerfully affected by beef, mutton, pie-crust, and rich soups. <br/>&mdash; Sydney Smith"
qotD[802] = "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[803] = "There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them. <br/>&mdash; Robert J. Ringer"
qotD[804] = "It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[805] = "No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[806] = "We must accept life for what it actually is&mdash;a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. <br/>&mdash; Ida R. Wylie"
qotD[807] = "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. <br/>&mdash; Andre Gide"
qotD[808] = "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. <br/>&mdash; Jack Kinder"
qotD[809] = "Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[810] = "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[811] = "Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. <br/>&mdash; Peter Marshall"
qotD[812] = "The vices of some men are magnificent. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[813] = "If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. <br/>&mdash; Japanese Proverb"
qotD[814] = "Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life. <br/>&mdash; Morarji Desai"
qotD[815] = "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Roosevelt"
qotD[816] = "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. <br/>&mdash; John Wayne"
qotD[817] = "Democracy might be the most appropriate means of choosing government officials, but that does not imply that democracy equals freedom. Freedom requires more than the right to vote; it requires that each person be as unrestrained as possible from the arbitrary will of others&mdash;regardless of whether the others are conquering tyrants, hereditary oligarchs, black-robed judges, or a majority of neighbors or countrymen. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[818] = "There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[819] = "Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels&mdash;men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. <br/>&mdash; Dwight D. Eisenhower"
qotD[820] = "We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[821] = "Happiness has many roots, but none more important than security. <br/>&mdash; E. R. Stettinius, Jr."
qotD[822] = "I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[823] = "By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. <br/>&mdash; Democritus"
qotD[824] = "So many fail because they don't get started&mdash;they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[825] = "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[826] = "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. <br/>&mdash; James Branch Cabell"
qotD[827] = "A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[828] = "When evil people tell you they want to do evil things, the safest thing is to believe them and that means this is war to the end: One side will win, one side will lose. And I have a very clear sense, I pick we win, they lose. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[829] = "By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[830] = "The way to wealth depends on just two words: industry and frugality. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[831] = "It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[832] = "A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. <br/>&mdash; Kahlil Gibran"
qotD[833] = "We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[834] = "For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[835] = "Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[836] = "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[837] = "It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever&mdash;the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[838] = "Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[839] = "If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Fuller"
qotD[840] = "In all things, it is better to hope than to despair. <br/>&mdash; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
qotD[841] = "I thanked my teammates, and a jumble of emotions washed over and around me. I felt gratitude and relief and joy, just sheer joy at the moment, at the culmination of a journey filled with twists and turns and ups and downs. I felt humbled, too. I felt profound humility at learning how I had become a source of inspiration for so many back home, everyone who said I offered renewed proof that America and Americans could still take on the world with courage and grit, who declared that the virtues so many Americans hold so dear&mdash;hard work, character, commitment to family, team, and country&mdash;could still triumph. <br/>&mdash; Michael Phelps"
qotD[842] = "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[843] = "We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[844] = "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[845] = "The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[846] = "The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. <br/>&mdash; Norman Cousins"
qotD[847] = "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as &quot;caring&quot; and &quot;sensitive&quot; because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[848] = "If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[849] = "No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork, and determination, a person can overcome anything. <br/>&mdash; B. Dodge"
qotD[850] = "Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[851] = "Communism and socialism are seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food, and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff&mdash;watch out! <br/>&mdash; Walter E. Williams"
qotD[852] = "I don't own anything that I'd be afraid to lose. Nothing material is that important. <br/>&mdash; Kelly Clarkson"
qotD[853] = "Democracy without morality is impossible. <br/>&mdash; Jack Kemp"
qotD[854] = "Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. <br/>&mdash; Gail Devers"
qotD[855] = "I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[856] = "Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[857] = "The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[858] = "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[859] = "If you have no idea where you want to go, it makes little difference how fast you travel. <br/>&mdash; Italian Proverb"
qotD[860] = "He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 15:15"
qotD[861] = "I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. <br/>&mdash; Audrey Hepburn"
qotD[862] = "Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. <br/>&mdash; St. Francis de Sales"
qotD[863] = "Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance. <br/>&mdash; Epicurus"
qotD[864] = "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[865] = "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all of your life. <br/>&mdash; Sister Elizabeth Kenny"
qotD[866] = "Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[867] = "Rights come from God, not from government. <br/>&mdash; Roy Moore"
qotD[868] = "The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. <br/>&mdash; J. K. Rowling"
qotD[869] = "Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[870] = "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[871] = "It is freedom itself that still hangs in the balance, and freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[872] = "Our Founding Fathers had studied history, and they knew that absolute power corrupts absolutely. This country was not founded on the principle that the president is a king and above all the king must succeed. In fact, the system is designed to ensure that the president fails when he is wrong. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[873] = "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. <br/>&mdash; Nathan Hale"
qotD[874] = "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[875] = "Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[876] = "It's not so much being rich that makes one happy, it's becoming rich that does. <br/>&mdash; Stendhal"
qotD[877] = "The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[878] = "To be a good loser is to learn how to win. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[879] = "When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things&mdash;not the great occasions&mdash;that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness. <br/>&mdash; Bob Hope"
qotD[880] = "Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts. <br/>&mdash; Kahlil Gibran"
qotD[881] = "A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. <br/>&mdash; Rumer Godden"
qotD[882] = "I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[883] = "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[884] = "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. <br/>&mdash; Gen. George S. Patton, Jr."
qotD[885] = "Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels. <br/>&mdash; Hazrat Inayat Khan"
qotD[886] = "Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[887] = "There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[888] = "The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals. That's why the people who do not have goals are doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else's goals. <br/>&mdash; Brian Tracy"
qotD[889] = "Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[890] = "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. <br/>&mdash; Woody Allen"
qotD[891] = "A little lie is like a little pregnancy: it doesn't take long before everyone knows. <br/>&mdash; C. S. Lewis"
qotD[892] = "Soup and fish explain half the emotions of life. <br/>&mdash; Sydney Smith"
qotD[893] = "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Adams"
qotD[894] = "The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. <br/>&mdash; Mohammed Ali"
qotD[895] = "Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[896] = "Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[897] = "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.' ...I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[898] = "Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[899] = "Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[900] = "When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[901] = "The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[902] = "American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. &#8230;The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard. <br/>&mdash; Ron Paul"
qotD[903] = "Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[904] = "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. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[905] = "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. <br/>&mdash; Barry Goldwater"
qotD[906] = "A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. <br/>&mdash; Robert Kiyosaki"
qotD[907] = "All the perplexities, confusion, and distress in America arise not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, so much as downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[908] = "You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. <br/>&mdash; Rev. William J. H. Boetcker"
qotD[909] = "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[910] = "I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. <br/>&mdash; Booker T. Washington"
qotD[911] = "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[912] = "True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. <br/>&mdash; Ralph W. Stockman"
qotD[913] = "The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. <br/>&mdash; Indian Proverb"
qotD[914] = "Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Baruch"
qotD[915] = "Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[916] = "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. <br/>&mdash; Frederick Douglass"
qotD[917] = "The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. <br/>&mdash; Zero Mostel"
qotD[918] = "Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. <br/>&mdash; Felix Frankfurter" 
qotD[919] = "I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. <br/>&mdash; Albert Schweitzer"
qotD[920] = "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. <br/>&mdash; Plato"
qotD[921] = "That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[922] = "Economics is not about things and tangible material objects; it is about men, their meanings and actions. <br/>&mdash; Ludwig von Mises"
qotD[923] = "Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. <br/>&mdash; David Starr Jordan"
qotD[924] = "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child &mdash; our own two eyes. All is a miracle. <br/>&mdash; Thich Nhat Hanh"
qotD[925] = "I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant, I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[926] = "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[927] = "Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[928] = "Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Disraeli"
qotD[929] = "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[930] = "That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[931] = "It is better to be an outsider than to compromise your principles. <br/>&mdash; Tom Tancredo"
qotD[932] = "There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[933] = "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[934] = "We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[935] = "You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. <br/>&mdash; Dave Barry"
qotD[936] = "Life itself is the proper binge. <br/>&mdash; Julia Child"
qotD[937] = "The definition of modern conservatism, which Ronald Reagan achieved, focused on spreading freedom across the planet. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[938] = "I never set out to be the second Mark Spitz. I only wanted to be the first Michael Phelps. I wanted to do something no one had ever done before. <br/>&mdash; Michael Phelps"
qotD[939] = "One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Maslow"
qotD[940] = "Stop regarding man, whose breath of life is in his nostrils; For why should he be esteemed? <br/>&mdash; Bible, Isaiah 2:22"
qotD[941] = "There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[942] = "A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[943] = "Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. It can also be translated into a source of bitterness. <br/>&mdash; Sylvia Porter"
qotD[944] = "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. <br/>&mdash;Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[945] = "The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. <br/>&mdash; Sioux Proverb"
qotD[946] = "Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools. <br/>&mdash; Walter Winchell"
qotD[947] = "Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[948] = "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. <br/>&mdash; Auerbach"
qotD[949] = "Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[950] = "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Seuss"
qotD[951] = "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[952] = "A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. <br/>&mdash; Charles Swindoll"
qotD[953] = "We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes. <br/>&mdash; Elizabeth Dole"
qotD[954] = "Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. <br/>&mdash; Sylvia Plath"
qotD[955] = "Idiots are blind to the coercive power of government. Bigots are blind to everything else. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[956] = "To live, we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. <br/>&mdash; Henri-Frederic Amiel"
qotD[957] = "Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and self-investment. Instead, people are told that America is unjust, unfair, and full of disadvantages. They are told that their only hope is for government to fix their problems. What has happened is that generations of people have bought into this nonsense and as result have remained hopelessly mired in poverty and despair&mdash;because the promised solutions don't work. And they will never work&mdash;they never have. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[958] = "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[959] = "In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. <br/>&mdash; Russian Proverb"
qotD[960] = "It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Mead"
qotD[961] = "The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. <br/>&mdash; Pearl S. Buck"
qotD[962] = "He who will not economize will have to agonize. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[963] = "If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[964] = "The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. <br/>&mdash; Pearl S. Buck"
qotD[965] = "That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. <br>&mdash; Simone de Beauvoir"
qotD[966] = "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[967] = "We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.  <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[968] = "Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. <br/>&mdash; Dean Koontz"
qotD[969] = "I'm going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I'm an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight for what's right for our country. Fight for the ideals and character of a free people. Fight for our children's future. Fight for justice and opportunity for all. Stand up to defend our country from its enemies. Stand up for each other, for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America. Stand up and fight. We're Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. <br/>&mdash; John McCain"
qotD[970] = "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[971] = "Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all. <br/>&mdash; Peter Drucker"
qotD[972] = "Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. <br/>&mdash; Wilma Rudolph"
qotD[973] = "Live with passion!<br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[974] = "The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to. <br/>&mdash; David Mamet"
qotD[975] = "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[976] = "The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. <br/>&mdash; Juvenal"
qotD[977] = "Money is a drug. Be careful of money's addictive power. Once you get used to receiving it, that addiction keeps you attached to the way you got it. <br/>&mdash; Robert Kiyosaki"
qotD[978] = "The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. <br/>&mdash; Elizabeth Bishop"
qotD[979] = "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[980] = "Simplicity is the glory of expression. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[981] = "Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Baruch"
qotD[982] = "In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[983] = "Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. <br/>&mdash; Bo Diddley"
qotD[984] = "The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[985] = "Taking the place of our inalienable right to life is politically correct choice. In reality, choice is an elitist eugenics mentality in disguise, hence it views procreation of undesirables&mdash;such as the common man&mdash;as bad, therefore, all population control schemes such as euthanasia, abortion, and the abomination called partial birth abortion&mdash;which is tantamount to infanticide&mdash;are 'good.' However, despite these and the Left&#8217;s many other successful changes toward the transvaluation or total inversion of America&#8217;s traditional cultural, social, political, and legal order, our Second Amendment rights remain a primary concern to the totalitarian ambitions of the organized Left. <br/>&mdash; Linda Kimball"
qotD[986] = "Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[987] = "I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[988] = "Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[989] = "Socialism was embraced by the greater part of the intelligentsia as the apparent heir of the liberal tradition: therefore, it is not surprising that to them the idea of socialism's leading to the opposite of liberty should appear inconceivable. <br/>&mdash; Friedrich Hayek"
qotD[990] = "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[991] = "I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[992] = "Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe. <br/>&mdash; Roy Moore"
qotD[993] = "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[994] = "Americans, endowed by their solicitous government with an ever-expanding array of entitlements, now have the whiny mentality that an entitlement culture breeds. <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[995] = "Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds? <br/>&mdash; Pablo Picasso"
qotD[996] = "It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work. <br/>&mdash; E.F. Schumacher"
qotD[997] = "Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[998] = "I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[999] = "I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. <br/>&mdash; Bob Dylan"
qotD[1000] = "I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. <br/>&mdash; Bob Hope"
qotD[1001] = "Without economy, none can be rich, and with it few will be poor. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1002] = "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. <br/>&mdash; Washington Irving"
qotD[1003] = "We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[1004] = "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. <br/>&mdash; Charles F. Kettering"
qotD[1005] = "We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[1006] = "History is a horse that gallops past the window, and you have to decide whether to jump or not. <br/>&mdash; Shimon Peres"
qotD[1007] = "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[1008] = "The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1009] = "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1010] = "Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man. <br/>&mdash; Philo"
qotD[1011] = "Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[1012] = "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1013] = "Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers. <br/>&mdash; John Gardner"
qotD[1014] = "People are eternally divided into two classes: the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. <br/>&mdash; John Ruskin"
qotD[1015] = "Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[1016] = "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. <br/>&mdash; Jane Austen"
qotD[1016] = "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. <br/>&mdash; Robert A. Heinlein"
qotD[1017] = "Industry, thrift, and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[1018] = "Keep your face always toward the sunshine&mdash;and shadows will fall behind you. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[1019] = "We didn't starve, but we didn't eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Malamud"
qotD[1020] = "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[1020] = "Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power. <br/>&mdash; Orison Swett Marden"
qotD[1021] = "One cannot both feast and become rich. <br/>&mdash; Ashanti Proverb"
qotD[1022] = "Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Brisbane"
qotD[1023] = "Pessimism is as American as apple pie&mdash;frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese. <br/>&mdash; George Will"
qotD[1024] = "It is said that Castro was making a speech to a large assembly. And he was going on at great length and then a voice out in the crowd said, &quot;peanuts, popcorn, crackerjacks.&quot; And he went on speaking and again the voice said, &quot;peanuts, popcorn, crackerjacks.&quot; And about the fourth time this happened, he stopped in his regular speech and he said, &quot;The next time,&quot; he said, &quot;I'm going to find out who that is and kick him all the way to Miami.&quot; And everybody in the crowd said, &quot;peanuts, popcorn, crackerjacks.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1025] = "The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages, there will generally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its reappearances falls on a time when from favorable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[1026] = "Thrift is not an affair of the pocket, but an affair of character. <br/>&mdash; S.W. Straus"
qotD[1027] = "Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[1028] = "A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[1029] = "The fact that America speaks does not mean that America dictates. America does have every right to stand up for what America is all about&mdash;that every person on this planet is endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[1030] = "I don't know what I would do without a God that blesses me with the ability to do this. <br/>&mdash; Miley Cyrus"
qotD[1031] = "There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen. <br/>&mdash; Wayne Dyer"
qotD[1032] = "The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down, and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures, and emotions as if we've already achieved them. <br/>&mdash; Denis Waitley"
qotD[1033] = "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. <br/>&mdash; Richard M. DeVos"
qotD[1034] = "The first step to becoming is to will it. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[1035] = "Understanding is a fountain of life to those who have it, but folly brings punishment to fools. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 16:22"
qotD[1036] = "Why is there so much month left at the end of the money? <br/>&mdash; John Barrymore"
qotD[1037] = "What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers. <br/>&mdash; Dave Barry"
qotD[1038] = "A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it. <br/>&mdash; William Feather"
qotD[1039] = "Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own. <br/>&mdash; Dick Gregory"
qotD[1040] = "Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1041] = "Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. <br/>&mdash; Ayn Rand"
qotD[1042] = "I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air&mdash;that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1043] = "Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. <br/>&mdash; Igor Stravinsky"
qotD[1044] = "No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1045] = "If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. <br/>&mdash; Paul Newman"
qotD[1046] = "One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. <br/>&mdash; Agatha Christie"
qotD[1047] = "The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there, they shoot you. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1048] = "Man is a luxury-loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough to obtain a bare subsistence. A society becomes stagnant when its people are too rational or too serious to be tempted by baubles. <br/>&mdash; Eric Hoffer"
qotD[1049] = "You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[1050] = "I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. <br/>&mdash; Dorothy Parker"
qotD[1051] = "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; &quot;Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1052] = "There are two kinds of light&mdash;the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[1053] = "A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. <br/>&mdash; Larry Bird"
qotD[1054] = "He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, &quot;Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[1055] = "Our dangers do not lie in too little tenderness to the accused. Our procedure has always been haunted by the ghost of the innocent man convicted. ...What we need to fear is the archaic formalism and watery sentiment that obstructs, delays, and defeats the prosecution of crime. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[1056] = "Fight one more round. When your arms are so tired that you can hardly lift your hands to come on guard, fight one more round. When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are black and you are so tired that you wish your opponent would crack you one on the jaw and put you to sleep, fight one more round&mdash;remembering that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped. <br/>&mdash; James Corbett"
qotD[1057] = "You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. <br/>&mdash; Johnny Cash"
qotD[1058] = "Society owes its citizens equality of opportunity, but cannot guarantee them equality of outcome. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1059] = "For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?<br/>&mdash; C. S. Lewis"
qotD[1060] = "The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[1061] = "Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. <br/>&mdash; Marie Curie"
qotD[1062] = "If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, &quot;I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Ann Landers"
qotD[1063] = "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[1064] = "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. <br/>&mdash; H. Ross Perot"
qotD[1065] = "The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with both. <br/>&mdash; Scott Sorrell"
qotD[1066] = "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. <br/>&mdash; Tobias Wolff"
qotD[1067] = "Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. <br/>&mdash; Denis Waitley"
qotD[1068] = "When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn. <br/>&mdash; Harriet Beecher Stowe"
qotD[1069] = "It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Covey"
qotD[1070] = "If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered. <br/>&mdash; Stanley Kubrick"
qotD[1071] = "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[1072] = "If the average taxpayer had a list of the ten weirdest courses their tax money was funding at their state university, they would ask for a refund. It's not just that their money is being wasted. It is used to subsidize bizarre and destructive visions of reality. People are paying to have their own children miseducated. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[1073] = "Unrest of the spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure. <br/>&mdash; Karl Menninger"
qotD[1074] = "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1075] = "Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1076] = "Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[1077] = "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1078] = "Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. <br/>&mdash; Ray Bradbury"
qotD[1079] = "It's not the having, it's the getting. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[1080] = "As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1081] = "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[1082] = "Don't take yourself too seriously. If you can develop ability to laugh at yourself, you will be much more relaxed when given or giving criticism&#8230; Blessed is he who can enjoy his blunders. <br/>&mdash; John C. Maxwell"
qotD[1083] = "I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[1084] = "The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[1085] = "Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. <br/>&mdash; Brian Tracy"
qotD[1086] = "What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[1087] = "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[1088] = "In the face of an obstacle which it is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. <br>&mdash; Simone de Beauvoir"
qotD[1089] = "Rust consumes iron and envy consumes itself. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[1090] = "We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens. <br/>&mdash; Sandra Day O'Connor"
qotD[1091] = "Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. <br/>&mdash; Kahlil Gibran"
qotD[1092] = "Imagination is more important than knowledge. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[1093] = "The most difficult road to take is the one that requires perseverance; however, it is the road that leads to success. <br/>&mdash; Thomas George"
qotD[1094] = "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[1095] = "Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1096] = "The further through life I drift, the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift. <br/>&mdash; Ogden Nash"
qotD[1097] = "We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[1098] = "I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. <br/>&mdash; J. Paul Getty"
qotD[1099] = "The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. <br/>&mdash; Alan Watts"
qotD[1100] = "Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Browne"
qotD[1101] = "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Adams"
qotD[1102] = "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. <br/>&mdash; Audrey Hepburn"
qotD[1103] = "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1104] = "Cherish your human connections&mdash;your relationships with friends and family. <br/>&mdash; Barbara Bush"
qotD[1105] = "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. <br/>&mdash; Anais Nin"
qotD[1106] = "Concentrate your energies, your thoughts, and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[1107] = "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. <br/>&mdash; Mary Kay Ash"
qotD[1108] = "The best way to know God is to love many things. <br/>&mdash; Vincent Van Gogh"
qotD[1109] = "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? <br/>&mdash; Marianne Williamson"
qotD[1110] = "We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[1111] = "Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory. <br/>&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi"
qotD[1112] = "Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real. <br/>&mdash; Eckhart Tolle"
qotD[1113] = "Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow! <br/>&mdash; Og Mandino"
qotD[1114] = "Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus, a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy; but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity. <br/>&mdash; Hung Tzu Cheng"
qotD[1115] = "The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it, and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will now. <br/>&mdash; Hugh Prather"
qotD[1116] = "God placed man in a position of having dominion over nature; that environmental awareness is healthy, but that apocalyptic environmentalism based on disinformation and hysteria is destructive to society and man's best interests. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1117] = "A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1118] = "Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination. <br/>&mdash; Grace Lichtenstein"
qotD[1119] = "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. <br/>&mdash; Robert Louis Stevenson"
qotD[1120] = "United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory. <br/>&mdash; Dwight D. Eisenhower"
qotD[1121] = "In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher"
qotD[1122] = "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes, and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common&mdash;this is my symphony. <br/>&mdash; William Henry Channing"
qotD[1123] = "Simplicity, a thing most rare in our age. <br/>&mdash; Ovid"
qotD[1124] = "What they want are our guns, for a weaponless people are a helpless people. What Leftists definitely don&#8217;'t want are our X-boxes, MTV, porn, drugs, sado-masochistic Jerry Springer programs, slut-and-pedo-chic clothes, and demonically-occluded rap, for these things are modernity&#8217;s versions of yesterday's Roman bread and circuses.' <br/>&mdash; Linda Kimball"
qotD[1125] = "Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? <br/>&mdash; Socrates"
qotD[1126] = "All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[1127] = "Content thyself to live obscurely good. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Addison"
qotD[1128] = "A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[1129] = "The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse. <br/>&mdash; Irish Proverb"
qotD[1130] = "To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1131] = "My belief is that to have no wants is divine. <br/>&mdash; Socrates"
qotD[1132] = "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1133] = "None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call involuntary poverty. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1134] = "We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore, never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[1135] = "Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[1136] = "A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending. <br/>&mdash; P. T. Barnum"
qotD[1131] = "The taxpayer &mdash; that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1132] = "It is at the edge of the petal that love waits. <br/>&mdash; William Carlos Williams"
qotD[1133] = "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[1134] = "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. <br/>&mdash; Lin Yutang"
qotD[1135] = "The words of a President have an enormous weight, and ought not to be used indiscriminately. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[1136] = "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[1137] = "Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market, but by government interference in the economy. <br/>&mdash; Ludwig von Mises"
qotD[1138] = "Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[1139] = "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, First Amendment"
qotD[1140] = "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Second Amendment"
qotD[1141] = "No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Third Amendment"
qotD[1142] = "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Fourth Amendment"
qotD[1143] = "No person shall be held to answer for any capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Fifth Amendment"
qotD[1144] = "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district where in the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Sixth Amendment"
qotD[1145] = "In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Seventh Amendment"
qotD[1146] = "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Eighth Amendment"
qotD[1147] = "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Ninth Amendment"
qotD[1148] = "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. <br/>&mdash; US Bill of Rights, Tenth Amendment"
qotD[1149] = "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead, they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Matthew 5:14-16"
qotD[1150] = "A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. <br/>&mdash; Jean de La Bruy&egrave;re"
qotD[1151] = "All people are born alike&mdash;except Republicans and Democrats. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[1152] = "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. <br/>&mdash; Pericles"
qotD[1153] = "A man 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. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[1154] = "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody&mdash;I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[1155] = "You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[1156] = "Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1157] = "There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends, and formidable to his opponents. <br/>&mdash; E.P. Whipple"
qotD[1158] = "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Roosevelt"
qotD[1159] = "The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1160] = "Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. <br/>&mdash; Lord Halifax"
qotD[1161] = "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[1162] = "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[1163] = "Light is shed upon the righteous and joy on the upright in heart. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Psalm 97:11"
qotD[1164] = "You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go. <br/>&mdash; Nikos Kazantzakis"
qotD[1165] = "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1166] = "In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[1167] = "Don't let little setbacks derail your efforts. Don't let negative people or negative responses deter you. Learn from life's experiences. Try and become better. Be willing to learn and be open to ideas. But stay focused on your goal. You'll eventually get there. Not until I was in my forties did I become a professional radio host. <br/>&mdash; Mark Levin"
qotD[1168] = "Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid, the second is pleasant and highly paid. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1169] = "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1170] = "It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil. <br/>&mdash; Friedrich A. Hayek"
qotD[1171] = "When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. <br/>&mdash; Jonathan Swift"
qotD[1172] = "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. <br/>&mdash; Milton Friedman"
qotD[1173] = "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1174] = "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or to forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because in the opinions of others to do so would be wise or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[1175] = "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1176] = "Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. <br/>&mdash; J. K. Rowling"
qotD[1177] = "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1178] = "If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1179] = "Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[1180] = "The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[1181] = "It is better to be born a beggar than a fool. <br/>&mdash; Spanish Proverb"
qotD[1182] = "When an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. <br/>&mdash; Rosalind Russell"
qotD[1183] = "To succeed, you must first improve, to improve, you must first practice, to practice, you must first learn, to learn, you must first fail. <br/>&mdash; Wesley Woo"
qotD[1184] = "When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that an old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had only one before. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1185] = "So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Berry"
qotD[1186] = "Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[1187] = "Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value. <br/>&mdash; Ann Radcliffe"
qotD[1188] = "It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest; better to lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Smiles"
qotD[1189] = "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. <br/>&mdash; Robert Frost"
qotD[1190] = "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Seuss"
qotD[1191] = "It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside. <br/>&mdash; Martina McBride"
qotD[1192] = "The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. <br/>&mdash; George Eliot"
qotD[1193] = "As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[1194] = "Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[1195] = "Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. <br/>&mdash; Tryon Edwards"
qotD[1196] = "I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away. <br/>&mdash; T. Boone Pickens"
qotD[1197] = "Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[1198] = "People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. <br/>&mdash; George Carlin"
qotD[1199] = "Frugality without creativity is deprivation. <br/>&mdash; Amy Dacyczyn"
qotD[1200] = "There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. <br/>&mdash; Rudy Giuliani"
qotD[1201] = "Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[1202] = "Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life. <br/>&mdash; S&eacute;an O'Casey"
qotD[1203] = "In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor. <br/>&mdash; Michelle Malkin"
qotD[1204] = "The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender. <br/>&mdash; Sandra Day O'Connor"
qotD[1205] = "If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1206] = "It is true that the overwhelming majority of the youth in America are liberal. What are the characteristics of youth? They are inexperience, not sophisticated, immaturity, emotional, and uninformed. You only lose these characteristics through time and experience, which is also when you become more conservative. <br/>&mdash; Thomas George"
qotD[1207] = "I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a &quot;learning experience.&quot; Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a &quot;learning experience.&quot; It makes me feel less stupid. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1208] = "When you feel tired and you think that you are old&mdash;think of Ronald Reagan who first ran for President at the age of 69. <br/>&mdash; Thomas George"
qotD[1209] = "I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. <br/>&mdash; George Burns"
qotD[1210] = "Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough, but not baked in the same oven. <br/>&mdash; Yiddish Proverb"
qotD[1211] = "The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1212] = "The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. <br/>&mdash; Katharine Whitehorn"
qotD[1213] = "Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1214] = "When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. <br/>&mdash; Pearl S. Buck"
qotD[1215] = "Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[1216] = "But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise... <br/>&mdash; Bible, I Corinthians 1:27"
qotD[1217] = "If you try to make the effort, you will have peace with yourself. My peace assures that I'm not afraid of death. I'm not going to intentionally hurry it up, but I'm not afraid of it. I think at least part of my longevity is because I have peace within myself. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[1218] = "No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1219] = "If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans. <br/>&mdash; Charley Reese"
qotD[1220] = "By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. <br/>&mdash; Latin Proverb"
qotD[1221] = "As citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Willkie"
qotD[1222] = "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1223] = "Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[1224] = "You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right. <br/>&mdash; Robert E. Lee"
qotD[1225] = "I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[1226] = "I never liked the atmosphere of Washington. I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought, and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in. <br/>&mdash; Booker T. Washington"
qotD[1227] = "Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death. <br/>&mdash; John Gilmore"
qotD[1228] = "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1229] = "Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. <br/>&mdash; J. P. Morgan"
qotD[1230] = "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1231] = "Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic&mdash;why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students. <br/>&mdash; Steve Dasbach"
qotD[1232] = "Trouble came to the world through laziness. <br/>&mdash; Jean de La Bruy&egrave;re"
qotD[1233] = "During the 2000 Presidential election, Democrats were trying to disqualify US Military votes while welcoming the votes of convicted felons. That tells me all I need to know. <br/>&mdash; Thomas George"
qotD[1234] = "He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher"
qotD[1235] = "Judge not man by his outward manifestation of faith; for some there are who tremblingly reach out shaking hands to the guidance of faith; others who stoutly venture in the dark their human confidence, their leader, which they mistake for faith; some whose hope totters upon crutches; others who stalk into futurity upon stilts. The difference is chiefly constitutional with them. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[1236] = "It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. <br/>&mdash; John Burroughs"
qotD[1237] = "Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. <br/>&mdash; James Arthur Baldwin"
qotD[1238] = "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be; now put foundations under them. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1239] = "The economist Walter Williams points out that with the money we've spent on poverty programs since the 1960s, we could have bought the entire assets of every Fortune 500 company and virtually every acre of US farmland. Still, the Left wants more. Yet, not only didn't we eliminate poverty, but today many social problems are far worse than they've ever been. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1240] = "Every day, you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1241] = "The best thing one can do is to cultivate one's garden. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1242] = "The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. <br/>&mdash; Jean-Paul Kauffmann"
qotD[1243] = "I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. <br>&mdash; Simone de Beauvoir"
qotD[1244] = "So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1245] = "The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. <br/>&mdash; Pat Buchanan"
qotD[1246] = "A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. <br/>&mdash; Charles Darwin"
qotD[1247] = "We are slaves of our needs; the fewer they are; they freer we are; the higher they are, the nobler the masters we serve. <br/>&mdash; John L. Spalding"
qotD[1248] = "At the heart of our message should be five familiar words. No big economic theories. No sermons on political philosophy. Just five short words: family, work, neighborhood, freedom, peace. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1249] = "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing... that's why we recommend it daily. <br/>&mdash; Zig Ziglar"
qotD[1250] = "Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money. <br/>&mdash; Takafumi Horie"
qotD[1251] = "Labor to keep alive in your chest that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[1252] = "It's hard to do it because you have got to look people in the eye and tell them they're irresponsible and lazy. And who's going to want to do that? Because that's what poverty is, ladies and gentlemen. In this country (USA), you can succeed if you get educated and work hard. Period. <br/>&mdash; Bill O'Reilly"
qotD[1253] = "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. <br/>&mdash; J. K. Rowling"
qotD[1254] = "The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[1255] = "Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[1256] = "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose&mdash;not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[1257] = "We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I'm not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out. <br/>&mdash; Paul Newman"
qotD[1258] = "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[1259] = "There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers. <br/>&mdash; Robert Orben"
qotD[1260] = "Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[1261] = "Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. <br/>&mdash; Spike Milligan"
qotD[1262] = "A dollar saved is a quarter earned. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Levant"
qotD[1263] = "The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[1264] = "The only wealth is life. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1265] = "One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service. <br/>&mdash; Sean Hannity"
qotD[1266] = "An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1267] = "Where there is love, there is pain. <br/>&mdash; Spanish Proverb"
qotD[1268] = "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. <br/>&mdash; Erin Majors"
qotD[1269] = "The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. <br/>&mdash; Felix Frankfurter" 
qotD[1270] = "The forefathers, including James Madison, felt very strongly that the duties that we owe to God were outside of government's prerogative, that government had no business interfering with the way we worship God. <br/>&mdash; Roy Moore"
qotD[1271] = "Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[1272] = "If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. <br/>&mdash; Erma Bombeck"
qotD[1273] = "Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[1274] = "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. <br/>&mdash; Washington Irving"
qotD[1275] = "Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. <br/>&mdash; Fran Lebowitz"
qotD[1276] = "He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. <br/>&mdash; Arab Proverb"
qotD[1277] = "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. <br/>&mdash; C. S. Lewis"
qotD[1278] = "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, &quot;I used everything you gave me.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Erma Bombeck"
qotD[1279] = "Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[1280] = "Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. <br/>&mdash; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
qotD[1281] = "No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. <br/>&mdash; Jessica Savitch"
qotD[1282] = "Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. <br/>&mdash; M. F. K. Fisher"
qotD[1283] = "If men through fear, fraud or mistake, should in terms renounce and give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the great end of society, would absolutely vacate such renunciation; the right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of Man to alienate this gift, and voluntarily become a slave. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[1284] = "Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1285] = "It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; knowledge but not wisdom; glitter, but not beauty; fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel. <br/>&mdash; Arne Garborg"
qotD[1286] = "People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. <br/>&mdash; Bob Dylan"
qotD[1287] = "To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[1288] = "Wealth unused might as well not exist. <br/>&mdash; Aesop"
qotD[1289] = "Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich. <br/>&mdash; Scottish Proverb"
qotD[1290] = "No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. <br/>&mdash; John Ruskin"
qotD[1291] = "Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, making it, or success. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Joyce Brothers"
qotD[1292] = "Make money, lose money&mdash;who cares? The idea is to enjoy it. <br/>&mdash; Robert A. Heinlein"
qotD[1293] = "Some day when the team's up against it and the breaks are beatin' the boys, ask 'em to go in and win just one for the Gipper. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1294] = "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. <br/>&mdash; J.R.R. Tolkien"
qotD[1295] = "If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1296] = "Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[1297] = "You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[1298] = "There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. <br/>&mdash; Bill Cosby"
qotD[1299] = "The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. <br/>&mdash; Plutarch"
qotD[1300] = "Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1301] = "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail. [Some] choose to work as best they can with important problems rather than restricting themselves to doing only that which they can do elegantly with the techniques already available. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Maslow"
qotD[1302] = "If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1303] = "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[1304] = "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. <br/>&mdash; Jesus of Nazareth"
qotD[1305] = "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. <br/>&mdash; Bible, John 3:16"
qotD[1306] = "The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect. <br/>&mdash; Bill Frist"
qotD[1307] = "Idleness and lack of occupation tend &mdash; nay are dragged &mdash; towards evil. <br/>&mdash; Hippocrates"
qotD[1308] = "There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. <br/>&mdash; Dwight D. Eisenhower"
qotD[1309] = "Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. <br/>&mdash; Michael Harrington"
qotD[1310] = "It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth&mdash;and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[1311] = "Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence&mdash;neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish&mdash;it is an imponderably valuable gift. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[1312] = "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1313] = "The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy&mdash;I mean that if you are happy you will be good. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1314] = "Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. <br/>&mdash; Elise Boulding"
qotD[1315] = "All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety. <br/>&mdash; George Mason"
qotD[1316] = "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. <br/>&mdash; John Quincy Adams"
qotD[1317] = "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then, I repeat myself. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1318] = "Nature uses as little as possible of anything. <br/>&mdash; Johannes Keppler"
qotD[1319] = "Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. <br/>&mdash; Edwin Teale"
qotD[1320] = "At its most basic level, conservatism is a respect for history and tradition, including traditional moral principles. I do not believe I am more moral, certainly no better, than anyone else, and conservatives who act 'holier than thou' turn my stomach. So do some elite liberals. But I do believe in a few timeless and unchanging truths, and chief among those is that man is fallen. This world is not perfect, and politicians will never make it so. This, above all, is what informs my pragmatic approach to politics. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[1321] = "Simplicity is the essence of happiness. <br/>&mdash; Cedric Bledsoe"
qotD[1322] = "I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[1323] = "To know you have enough is to be rich. <br/>&mdash; Lao Tzu"
qotD[1324] = "Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in &quot;Old Maid&quot;; the player who is finally left with it has lost. </br>&mdash; Evelyn Waugh"
qotD[1325] = "A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life. <br/>&mdash; Henri Frederic Amiel"
qotD[1326] = "I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. <br/>&mdash; Pat Buchanan"
qotD[1327] = "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.  <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1328] = "When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1329] = "In the hope of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. <br/>&mdash; Albert Schweitzer"
qotD[1330] = "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. <br/>&mdash; George Washington" 
qotD[1331] = "It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. <br/>&mdash; Laura Ingalls Wilder"
qotD[1332] = "It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[1333] = "With self-discipline most anything is possible. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1334] = "Among mankind, money is far more persuasive than logical argument. <br/>&mdash; Euripides"
qotD[1335] = "The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. <br/>&mdash; Robert Louis Stevenson"
qotD[1336] = "Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. <br/>&mdash; Henrik Ibsen"
qotD[1337] = "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius&mdash;and a lot of courage&mdash;to move in the opposite direction. <br/>&mdash; E. F. Schumacker"
qotD[1338] = "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[1339] = "We are now paying for other people's dinners with this credit card bailout. This has an upside, however. When you pay for other people's dinners and get nothing for it, there is a teaching moment: women can finally learn how men feel on dates. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1340] = "To simplify complications is the first essential of success. <br/>&mdash; George Earle Buckle"
qotD[1341] = "We cannot expect perfection in any one; but we may demand consistency of every one. <br/>&mdash; Hannah More"
qotD[1342] = "If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. <br/>&mdash; Nora Roberts"
qotD[1343] = "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[1344] = "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[1345] = "It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation. <br/>&mdash; Robert Conklin"
qotD[1346] = "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. <br/>&mdash; Robert Frost"
qotD[1347] = "May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live. <br/>&mdash; Irish Proverb"
qotD[1348] = "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all of your life. <br/>&mdash; Sister Elizabeth Kenny"
qotD[1349] = "Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[1350] = "I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1351] = "The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. <br/>&mdash; Mitch Albom"
qotD[1352] = "If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1353] = "Let your light shine before the world that they might see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Matthew 14:6"
qotD[1354] = "Progress with humans comes slowly, one person or one family at a time. It requires a personal relationship that no impersonal government bureaucracy can ever deliver. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[1355] = "I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. <br/>&mdash; Aldous Huxley"
qotD[1356] = "To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money. Money, money everywhere and still not enough! And then no money, or a little money, or less money, or more money but money always money . and if you have money, or you don't have money, it is the money that counts, and money makes money, but what makes money make money? <br/>&mdash; Henry Miller"
qotD[1357] = "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Wolfe"
qotD[1358] = "The day, water, sun, moon, night&mdash;I do not have to purchase these things with money. <br/>&mdash; Plautus"
qotD[1359] = "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[1360] = "While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[1361] = "When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1362] = "In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. <br/>&mdash; Bill Vaughan"
qotD[1363] = "Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. <br/>&mdash; Bo Derek"
qotD[1364] = "The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1365] = "Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service. <br/>&mdash; Robert Collier"
qotD[1366] = "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1367] = "It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. <br/>&mdash; Napoleon Hill"
qotD[1368] = "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being. <br/>&mdash; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
qotD[1369] = "Pessimism is a mental disease. It is what ever and under whatever circumstance it appears, in art and philosophy, in everyday life. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person. <br/>&mdash; Upton Sinclair"
qotD[1370] = "Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[1371] = "It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Robert Gaines"
qotD[1372] = "American politicians will do anything for money; English politicians take the money and won't do anything. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Leacock"
qotD[1373] = "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1374] = "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. <br/>&mdash; Dave Gardner"
qotD[1375] = "A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. <br/>&mdash; Welsh Proverb"
qotD[1376] = "People are idiots. No matter how smart or brilliant you may be, you spend much of your day being an idiot. I proudly include myself in the idiot category. <br/>&mdash; Scott Adams"
qotD[1377] = "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1378] = "Happiness is: A good martini, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman... or a bad woman, depending on how much happiness you can stand. <br/>&mdash; George Burns"
qotD[1379] = "We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1380] = "We can't hold on to our youth, but what you can hang on to is all the things we've been told a zillion times: you have to find the light in your life that you had when you were a little girl or little guy that made you happy. <br/>&mdash; Goldie Hawn"
qotD[1381] = "I believe in the individual in less government so as to allow that individual maximum freedom to create and achieve. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1382] = "Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Butler"
qotD[1383] = "A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows. <br/>&mdash; Irish Proverb"
qotD[1384] = "It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. <br/>&mdash; George Washington Carver"
qotD[1385] = "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. <br/>&mdash; Maxim Gorky"
qotD[1386] = "You got to realize that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette, and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Dre"
qotD[1387] = "Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete. <br/>&mdash; Bible, John 16:24"
qotD[1388] = "The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[1389] = "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1390] = "Many have too much, but none enough. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[1391] = "Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Paterson"
qotD[1392] = "It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. <br/>&mdash; Albert Camus"
qotD[1393] = "How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1394] = "We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[1395] = "If you have no money, be polite. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[1396] = "Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[1397] = "I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. <br/>&mdash; Diane Sawyer"
qotD[1398] = "Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1399] = "Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness; you cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab of paint to a thousand painters. <br/>&mdash; William F. Buckley, Jr."
qotD[1400] = "Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1401] = "Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. <br/>&mdash; Charlie Chaplin"
qotD[1402] = "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1403] = "When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward. <br/>&mdash; Swedish Proverb"
qotD[1404] = "My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[1405] = "A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil, but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often just to save it from drying out completely. <br/>&mdash; Pam Brown"
qotD[1406] = "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[1407] = "God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[1408] = "The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. <br/>&mdash; Ludwig Wittgenstein"
qotD[1409] = "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. <br/>&mdash; Pat Buchanan"
qotD[1410] = "My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot. <br/>&mdash; Ashleigh Brilliant"
qotD[1411] = "Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[1412] = "When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. That wire is you and me. The current is God. We have the power to let the current pass through us, use us, to produce the light of the world, Jesus, in us. Or we can refuse to be used and allow darkness to spread. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[1413] = "The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. <br/>&mdash; Henry Miller"
qotD[1414] = "People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. <br/>&mdash; Audrey Hepburn"
qotD[1415] = "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1416] = "Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[1417] = "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. <br/>&mdash; Michael Jordan"
qotD[1418] = "The Framers of the First Amendment were not concerned with preventing government from abridging their freedom to speak about crops and cockfighting, or with protecting the expressive activity of topless dancers, which of late has found some shelter under the First Amendment. Rather, the Framers cherished unabridged freedom of political communication. <br/>&mdash; George Will"
qotD[1419] = "You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. <br/>&mdash; Rosalynn Carter"
qotD[1420] = "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people&mdash;your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. <br/>&mdash; Barbara Bush"
qotD[1421] = "Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind. <br/>&mdash; Muhammad"
qotD[1422] = "Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Rush"
qotD[1423] = "Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1424] = "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1425] = "Humor is reason gone mad. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[1426] = "Man is not free unless government is limited. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1427] = "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[1428] = "Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[1429] = "Kites rise highest against the wind&mdash;not with it. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1430] = "In a democracy, the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[1431] = "Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[1432] = "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1433] = "Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. <br/>&mdash; Bulgarian Proverb"
qotD[1434] = "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. <br/>&mdash; B.F. Skinner"
qotD[1435] = "The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1436] = "A word to the wise ain't necessary&mdash;it's the stupid ones that need the advice. <br/>&mdash; Bill Cosby"
qotD[1437] = "There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[1438] = "God bless America! Have I offended anyone? <br/>&mdash; Thomas George"
qotD[1439] = "If a man has any brains at all, let him hold on to his calling, and in the grand sweep of things, his turn will come at last. <br/>&mdash; Walter McCune"
qotD[1440] = "With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[1441] = "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. <br/>&mdash; Harriet Braiker"
qotD[1442] = "Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. <br/>&mdash; Frank A. Clark"
qotD[1443] = "This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1444] = "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[1445] = "Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. <br/>&mdash; Eric Butterworth"
qotD[1446] = "To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. <br/>&mdash; Bette Davis"
qotD[1447] = "And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God&#8217;s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow&mdash;not even the powers of hell can separate us from God&#8217;s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below&mdash;indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Romans 8:38-39"
qotD[1448] = "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Billy Graham"
qotD[1449] = "Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God, and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith, and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[1450] = "The entire essence of America is the hope to first make money&mdash;then make money with money&mdash;then make lots of money with lots of money. <br/>&mdash; Paul Erdman"
qotD[1451] = "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle&mdash;victorious. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[1452] = "Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment. <br/>&mdash; Margaret B. Johnstone"
qotD[1453] = "Reality is the name we give to our disappointments. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[1454] = "Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, &quot;Oh, I feel so horrible!&quot; <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1455] = "All great change in America begins at the dinner table. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1456] = "Grief cannot be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way. <br/>&mdash; Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
qotD[1457] = "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. <br/>&mdash; Alice Walker"
qotD[1458] = "It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman, sex provides the most economical way to have fun. <br/>&mdash; Anita Loos"
qotD[1459] = "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. <br/>&mdash; Robert Orben"
qotD[1460] = "There is no use filling your pocket with money if you have a hole in the corner. <br/>&mdash; George Eliot"
qotD[1461] = "He will always be a slave, who does not know how to live upon a little. <br/>&mdash; Horace"
qotD[1462] = "An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[1463] = "Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself. <br/>&mdash; Thich Nhat Hanh"
qotD[1464] = "When you are down and out, something always turns up&mdash;and it is usually the noses of your friends. <br/>&mdash; Orson Welles"
qotD[1465] = "Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. <br/>&mdash; Tryon Edwards"
qotD[1466] = "The devil laughs if a thief steals from another thief. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[1467] = "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1468] = "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1469] = "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[1470] = "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[1471] = "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1472] = "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost. <br/>&mdash; Jackson Browne"
qotD[1473] = "Anybody can become angry&mdash;that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way&mdash;that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[1474] = "You reach a point where you don't work for money. <br/>&mdash; Walt Disney"
qotD[1475] = "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1476] = "There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed. <br/>&mdash; Lao Tzu"
qotD[1477] = "Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[1478] = "The same prudence, which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1479] = "I am a part of everything that I have read. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1480] = "It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. <br/>&mdash; Roy Disney"
qotD[1481] = "It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[1482] = "Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[1483] = "It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[1484] = "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[1485] = "If economies are built &quot;bottom up,&quot; Obama, wouldn't Mexico be the number one economy in the world? Wouldn't Cuba be an international superpower? <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1486] = "Crusaders like to talk about &quot;solutions,&quot; but life is actually one trade-off after another. The only real question is: What are you prepared to give up in order to get what you want? <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1487] = "Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, then life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly. <br/>&mdash; Langston Hughes"
qotD[1488] = "Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[1489] = "Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations... six if one went to Harvard. <br/>&mdash; Edgar R. Fiedler"
qotD[1490] = "No nation was ever ruined by trade. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1491] = "You want to emphasize the opportunity inherent in every person, rather than their victimization, because victimization leads to passivity, to grievance and to helplessness and is exactly the wrong psychology if you're poor. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[1492] = "No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. <br/>&mdash; Thomas C. Haliburton"
qotD[1493] = "How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! <br/>&mdash; Horace"
qotD[1494] = "The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. <br/>&mdash; Jean-Paul Kauffmann"
qotD[1495] = "In today's economy, there are no experts, no &quot;best and brightest&quot; with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything. <br/>&mdash; Thomas J. Peters"
qotD[1496] = "Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine. <br/>&mdash; Charles Sawyer"
qotD[1497] = "The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[1498] = "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[1499] = "Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[1500] = "There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. <br/>&mdash; Napoleon Hill"
qotD[1501] = "Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. <br/>&mdash; Akhenaton"
qotD[1502] = "Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions. <br/>&mdash; Roger Babson"
qotD[1503] = "You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. <br/>&mdash; Les Brown"
qotD[1504] = "The <em>New York Times</em> editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[1505] = "I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. <br/>&mdash; Walt Disney"
qotD[1506] = "Where there is no solution, there is no problem. <br/>&mdash; James Burnham"
qotD[1507] = "Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1508] = "The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either, necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. <br/>&mdash; E. M. Gray"
qotD[1509] = "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1510] = "Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[1511] = "If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. <br/>&mdash; Bob Hope"
qotD[1512] = "That which we tolerate, we deserve. <br/>&mdash; Glenn Beck"
qotD[1513] = "Romantics consider common sense vulgar. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[1514] = "The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue. <br/>&mdash; John Quincy Adams"
qotD[1515] = "To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring&mdash;these are some of the rewards of the simple life. <br/>&mdash; John Burroughs"
qotD[1516] = "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Adams"
qotD[1517] = "Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[1518] = "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. <br/>&mdash; Allan K. Chalmers"
qotD[1519] = "Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[1520] = "A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it. <br/>&mdash; James Moffatt"
qotD[1521] = "In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win, we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Willkie"
qotD[1522] = "No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. <br/>&mdash; Louis Sabin"
qotD[1523] = "All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. <br/>&mdash; S&eacute;an O'Casey"
qotD[1524] = "How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. <br/>&mdash; Robert G. Allen"
qotD[1525] = "Thrive by honesty or remain poor. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[1526] = "Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. <br/>&mdash; Robert G. Allen"
qotD[1527] = "It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Hawking"
qotD[1528] = "Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. <br/>&mdash; Hobart Brown"
qotD[1529] = "Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. And absence of government doesn't work, either. For a million years, mankind had no government at all, and everyone's relatives were naked in trees. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1530] = "Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know&mdash;and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know&mdash;even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction&mdash;than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too. <br/>&mdash; Isaac Asimov"
qotD[1531] = "The most important change which extensive government control produces is a psychological change in the character of the people. <br/>&mdash; Friedrich A. Hayek"
qotD[1532] = "Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger. <br/>&mdash; Hans Christian Anderson"
qotD[1533] = "Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. <br/>&mdash; Larry Bird"
qotD[1534] = "One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[1535] = "Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1536] = "You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. <br/>&mdash; Diana Ross"
qotD[1537] = "Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures. <br/>&mdash; Gene Brown"
qotD[1538] = "When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page. <br/>&mdash; Eileen Caddy"
qotD[1539] = "Faultless men are possible only in a faultless world. <br/>&mdash; Rabbi Chasdai"
qotD[1540] = "The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government. <br/>&mdash; Roy Moore"
qotD[1541] = "You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. <br/>&mdash; Robert Collier"
qotD[1542] = "Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[1543] = "There is one America, but there are different priorities reflected in individual Americans that certainly can stand in stark contrast with &#8212; I'll give you an example. Some people, money is the be-all, end-all to them. Money and power, prestige, a title next to their name is the be-all, end-all. Other people, the highest priority would be their character, their reputation, their word, and money has nothing to do with that. The beauty of America is that individuals making up this great country do have different priorities. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[1544] = "Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the locks, and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. <br/>&mdash; Rita Coolidge"
qotD[1545] = "Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work. <br/>&mdash; Thomas A. Edison"
qotD[1546] = "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. <br/>&mdash; Cherokee Proverb"
qotD[1547] = "The difference between vengeance and justice is that justice must apply to all. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[1548] = "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. <br/>&mdash; Kahlil Gibran"
qotD[1549] = "When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[1550] = "Lavishness is not generosity. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Fuller"
qotD[1551] = "What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. <br/>&mdash; Fran&ccedil;ois de la Rochefoucauld"
qotD[1552] = "If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[1553] = "A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. <br/>&mdash; Robert Hughes"
qotD[1554] = "People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. <br/>&mdash; Robert Half"
qotD[1555] = "Inflation hasn't ruined everything. A dime can still be used as a screwdriver. <br/>&mdash; H. Jackson Brown, Jr."
qotD[1556] = "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1557] = "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. <br/>&mdash; Washington Irving"
qotD[1558] = "Bankruptcy stared me in the face, but one thought kept me calm; soon I'd be too poor to need an anti-theft alarm. <br/>&mdash; Gina Rothfels"
qotD[1559] = "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. <br/>&mdash; Unknown"
qotD[1560] = "Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Henri Frederic Amiel"
qotD[1561] = "Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1562] = "Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. <br/>&mdash; John Wayne"
qotD[1563] = "Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1564] = "The search for someone to blame is always successful. <br/>&mdash; Robert Half"
qotD[1565] = "Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare, &quot;Julius Caesar&quot;"
qotD[1566] = "Ultimately, a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[1567] = "Strong men have strong convictions, and one man with a belief is greater than a thousand that have only interests. <br/>&mdash; James A. Garfield"
qotD[1568] = "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1569] = "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. <br/>&mdash; Abigail Adams" 
qotD[1570] = "A man who spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1571] = "The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1572] = "Turn your wounds into wisdom. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[1573] = "It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. <br/>&mdash; James Cash Penney"
qotD[1574] = "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[1575] = "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[1576] = "Changing directions in life is not tragic; losing passion in life is. <br/>&mdash; Max Lucado"
qotD[1577] = "Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. <br/>&mdash; Plato"
qotD[1578] = "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. <br/>&mdash; E. B. White"
qotD[1579] = "If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want for bread. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1580] = "The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[1581] = "Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[1582] = "Endurance pierces marble. <br/>&mdash; Libyan Proverb"
qotD[1583] = "There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[1584] = "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing&mdash;after they've tried everything else. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1585] = "Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. <br/>&mdash; Pearl S. Buck"
qotD[1586] = "The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[1587] = "It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. <br/>&mdash; Aesop"
qotD[1588] = "It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1589] = "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Mead"
qotD[1590] = "POWs often regard their prison experience as comparable to the trials of Job. Indeed, for my fellow prisoners who suffered more than I, the comparison is appropriate. Hungry, beaten, hurt, scared, and alone, human beings can begin to feel that they are removed from God's love, a vast distance separating them from their Creator. The anguish can lead to resentment, to the awful despair that God has forsaken you. To guard against such despair, in our most dire moments, POWs would make supreme efforts to grasp our faith tightly, to profess it alone, in the dark, and hasten its revival. <br/>&mdash; John McCain"
qotD[1591] = "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1592] = "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. <br/>&mdash; Alexander Hamilton"
qotD[1593] = "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. <br/>&mdash; Greenville Kleisser"
qotD[1594] = "One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1595] = "What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Patrick Gentempo"
qotD[1596] = "No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1597] = "Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[1598] = "Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[1599] = "One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1600] = "A man with no enemies is a man with no character. <br/>&mdash; Paul Newman"
qotD[1601] = "The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy; walk and be healthy. The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose. <br/>&mdash; Charles Dickens"
qotD[1602] = "A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[1603] = "Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. <br/>&mdash; Andr&eacute; Gide"
qotD[1604] = "The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. <br/>&mdash; Leo Buscaglia"
qotD[1605] = "What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1606] = "The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1607] = "Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do, but from liking what we have to do. <br/>&mdash; Wilfred A. Peterson"
qotD[1608] = "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. <br/>&mdash; Sir James M. Barrie"
qotD[1609] = "The wise man shapes himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[1610] = "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[1611] = "My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. <br/>&mdash; Gary Oldman"
qotD[1612] = "I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. <br/>&mdash; Larry Bird"
qotD[1613] = "The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. <br/>&mdash; Paulo Coelho"
qotD[1614] = "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. <br/>&mdash; Raymond Chandler"
qotD[1615] = "Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. <br/>&mdash; George Carlin"
qotD[1616] = "Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1617] = "Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything. <br/>&mdash; Jean-Louise Etienne"
qotD[1618] = "This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[1619] = "I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried&mdash;who tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out. <br/>&mdash; Paul Newman"
qotD[1620] = "Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. <br/>&mdash; George Carlin"
qotD[1621] = "We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[1622] = "Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. <br/>&mdash; Brian Tracy"
qotD[1623] = "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.... O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[1624] = "Do what you feel in your heart to be right&mdash;for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Roosevelt"
qotD[1625] = "Folks, you will never be your best doing it someone else's way, particularly if you utilize talent as opposed to learned skills. I am convinced that you have absolutely no idea how good you can be&mdash;at whatever you want to do. You don't know because you are trapped in situations where you either can't or are afraid to be yourself. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1626] = "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. <br/>&mdash; Aldous Huxley"
qotD[1627] = "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1628] = "Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses. <br/>&mdash; George Will"
qotD[1629] = "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Exodus 20:7"
qotD[1630] = "A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[1631] = "It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf. <br/>&mdash; Blaise Pascal"
qotD[1632] = "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. <br/>&mdash; Herbert Spencer"
qotD[1633] = "The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. <br/>&mdash; Johnny Carson"
qotD[1634] = "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. <br/>&mdash; Anne Morrow Lindbergh"
qotD[1635] = "You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1636] = "There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[1637] = "The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[1638] = "To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[1639] = "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. <br/>&mdash; Isaac Asimov"
qotD[1640] = "Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. <br/>&mdash; William Moulton Marston"
qotD[1641] = "When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[1642] = "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, &quot;Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.&quot; She's got a baseball bat and yelling, &quot;You want a piece of me?&quot; <br/>&mdash; Robin Williams"
qotD[1643] = "One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. <br/>&mdash; William Feather"
qotD[1644] = "Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[1645] = "No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. <br/>&mdash; Michael Pritchard"
qotD[1646] = "I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. <br/>&mdash; Harry Houdini"
qotD[1647] = "It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[1648] = "The fool can no more taste the sweetness of wisdom than the man with a cold can appreciate the scent of a rose. <br/>&mdash; Egyptian Proverb"
qotD[1649] = "Count reminiscences like money. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[1650] = "Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. <br/>&mdash; Rose Kennedy"
qotD[1651] = "A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1652] = "The only people without problems are those in cemeteries. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1653] = "When you look at where the real problems are among minorities in our society, particularly blacks, it's at the bottom. It's the people who are in school systems that don't educate, neighborhoods where there is a lot of crime, drugs, the whole bit. <br/>&mdash; Clarence Thomas"
qotD[1654] = "It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[1655] = "There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means&mdash;either may do&mdash;the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1656] = "Americans have long ago abandoned respect for the constitutional limitations placed on the federal government. Our elected representatives represent that disrespect. <br/>&mdash; Walter E. Williams"
qotD[1657] = "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[1658] = "I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me. <br/>&mdash; Paul Newman"
qotD[1659] = "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1660] = "I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. <br/>&mdash; Abigail Adams"
qotD[1661] = "With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[1662] = "I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1663] = "Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Psalm 31:24"
qotD[1664] = "I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1665] = "How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. <br/>&mdash; Anne Frank"
qotD[1666] = "Only a mediocre person is always at his best. <br/>&mdash; W. Somerset Maugham"
qotD[1667] = "In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[1668] = "I regard no man as poor who has a godly mother. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[1669] = "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[1670] = "Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. <br/>&mdash; George Carlin"
qotD[1671] = "Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. <br/>&mdash; Plato"
qotD[1672] = "Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[1673] = "The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1674] = "Swift gratitude is the sweetest. <br/>&mdash; Greek Proverb"
qotD[1675] = "I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[1676] = "A penny saved is a penny earned. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1677] = "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 31:8"
qotD[1678] = "Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. <br/>&mdash; August Wilson"
qotD[1679] = "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. <br/>&mdash; Bill Cosby"
qotD[1680] = "It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[1681] = "The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins" 
qotD[1682] = "I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything. <br/>&mdash; John Elway"
qotD[1683] = "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[1684] = "The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. <br/>&mdash; Ernest Dimnet"
qotD[1685] = "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[1686] = "Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate ability to pay attention to economic principles. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1687] = "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. <br/>&mdash; Colin Wilson"
qotD[1688] = "Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1689] = "Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[1690] = "One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind. <br/>&mdash; Robert Collier"
qotD[1691] = "Economy's so bad, I saw an illegal immigrant deport himself. That's how bad it's gotten. <br/>&mdash; Jay Leno"
qotD[1692] = "Sincere composers believe in God. <br/>&mdash; John Philip Sousa"
qotD[1693] = "Having knowledge, but lacking the power to express it, clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. <br/>&mdash; Pericles"
qotD[1694] = "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. <br/>&mdash; C. S. Lewis"
qotD[1695] = "Have a sense of humor about life&mdash;you will need it. And be courteous. <br/>&mdash; Peter Jennings"
qotD[1696] = "Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up. <br/>&mdash; Vince Vaughn"
qotD[1697] = "Young men preen. Old men scheme. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[1698] = "All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[1699] = "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Schopenhauer"
qotD[1700] = "Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose. <br/>&mdash; Pete Rose"
qotD[1701] = "You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy. <br/>&mdash; John Zorn"
qotD[1702] = "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. <br/>&mdash; Swedish Proverb"
qotD[1703] = "Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. <br/>&mdash; Petrarch"
qotD[1704] = "A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap! <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[1705] = "He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1706] = "Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. <br/>&mdash; Davy Crockett"
qotD[1707] = "Freedom is the natural yearning of the human spirit, as we were endowed by our Creator. And the United States of America is THE place in the world where that yearning flourishes. Where freedom is expected because it's part of the way we're created. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1708] = "On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1709] = "Mock not the fallen, for slippery is the road ahead of you. <br/>&mdash; Russian Proverb"
qotD[1710] = "Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. <br/>&mdash; Dean Koontz"
qotD[1711] = "Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership. <br/>&mdash; James Cash Penney"
qotD[1712] = "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. <br/>&mdash; Aldous Huxley"
qotD[1713] = "Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. <br/>&mdash; J. K. Rowling"
qotD[1714] = "The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom, but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the &quot;wrong&quot; beliefs. <br/>&mdash; F. A. Hayek"
qotD[1715] = "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment, wisely and earnestly. <br/>&mdash; Buddha"
qotD[1716] = "It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful, it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[1717] = "Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. <br/>&mdash; J. William Fulbright" 
qotD[1718] = "I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together. <br/>&mdash; John Greenleaf Whittier"
qotD[1719] = "Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around. <br/>&mdash; Katharine Hepburn"
qotD[1720] = "Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[1721] = "They (the emperors) frequently abused their power arbitrarily to deprive their subjects of property or of life: their tyranny was extremely onerous to the few, but it did not reach the greater number; ...But it would seem that if despotism were to be established amongst the democratic nations of our days it might assume a different character; it would be more extensive and more mild, it would degrade men without tormenting them. <br/>&mdash; Alexis de Tocqueville"
qotD[1722] = "It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. <br/>&mdash; Bill Vaughan"
qotD[1723] = "Better debate a question without settling it than settle a question without debating it. <br/>&mdash; Joubert"
qotD[1724] = "The real essence of work is concentrated energy&mdash;people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and active people are kept up to their labors. <br/>&mdash; Walter Bagehot"
qotD[1725] = "Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. <br/>&mdash; Henri Frederic Amiel"
qotD[1726] = "If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. <br/>&mdash; Marya Mannes"
qotD[1727] = "Money is a poor man's credit card. <br/>&mdash; Marshall McLuhan"
qotD[1728] = "That men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[1729] = "The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. <br/>&mdash; Charles Dickens"
qotD[1730] = "Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1731] = "Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. <br/>&mdash; Rupert Murdoch"
qotD[1732] = "I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it. <br/>&mdash; Clint Eastwood"
qotD[1733] = "Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else. <br/>&mdash; Jesse Ventura"
qotD[1734] = "A government policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[1735] = "We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. <br/>&mdash; Don Marquis"
qotD[1736] = "Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves. <br/>&mdash; Zig Ziglar"
qotD[1737] = "The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. <br/>&mdash; Alan Watts"
qotD[1738] = "Only those who want everything done for them are bored. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Billy Graham"
qotD[1739] = "The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on. <br/>&mdash; Joseph French Johnson"
qotD[1740] = "If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions, it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. <br/>&mdash; Edwin Land"
qotD[1741] = "Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. <br/>&mdash; Dick Armey"
qotD[1742] = "I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten. <br/>&mdash; Anita Roddick"
qotD[1743] = "If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life. <br/>&mdash; Vic Oliver"
qotD[1744] = "Basic good sense means not spending more than you can afford and always realizing that calamity can lie ahead; these principles are your lifeboats in any flood. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[1745] = "Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Miller"
qotD[1746] = "If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man's got possession of all that gold&mdash;billions of dollars worth&mdash;he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity. <br/>&mdash; Charles F. Bunning"
qotD[1747] = "There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people. <br/>&mdash; Jack Kemp"
qotD[1748] = "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Adrian Rogers"
qotD[1749] = "In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1750] = "Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. <br/>&mdash; Scottish Proverb"
qotD[1751] = "Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. <br/>&mdash; Arnold Schwarzenegger"
qotD[1752] = "The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. <br/>&mdash; Lin Yutang"
qotD[1753] = "Never give in &#8212; never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1754] = "There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. <br/>&mdash; Steven Wright"
qotD[1755] = "To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is worse. <br/>&mdash; E. Y. Harburg"
qotD[1756] = "To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent&mdash;that is to triumph over old age. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Bailey Aldrich"
qotD[1757] = "A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. <br/>&mdash; William S. Burroughs"
qotD[1758] = "I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1759] = "There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. <br/>&mdash; Saint Theresa of Jesus"
qotD[1760] = "Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods. <br/>&mdash; Aristotle"
qotD[1761] = "For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 8:11"
qotD[1762] = "If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others. <br/>&mdash; Tryon Edwards"
qotD[1763] = "You talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in the form of government. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Baruch"
qotD[1764] = "Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully. <br/>&mdash; Scott Alexander"
qotD[1765] = "The music of art is but the imitation of the music of nature; there are voices of grief in the winds, joy in the songs of spring and melody in the rippling stream. <br/>&mdash; W. H. Robertson"
qotD[1766] = "Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1767] = "There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[1768] = "Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. <br/>&mdash; Harry S. Truman"
qotD[1769] = "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. <br/>&mdash; T. S. Eliot"
qotD[1770] = "Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. <br/>&mdash; Leo Buscaglia"
qotD[1771] = "The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. <br/>&mdash; George Mason"
qotD[1772] = "Be curious, not judgmental. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[1773] = "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[1774] = "Laughter is wine for the soul&mdash;laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness&mdash;the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. <br/>&mdash; S&eacute;an O'Casey"
qotD[1775] = "People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have. <br/>&mdash; Brian Friel"
qotD[1776] = "All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[1777] = "The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. <br/>&mdash; Ayn Rand"
qotD[1778] = "There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry Pearse"
qotD[1779] = "When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him, whose? <br/>&mdash; Don Marquis"
qotD[1780] = "I am a confirmed believer in blessings in disguise. I prefer them undisguised when I myself happen to be the person blessed; in fact, I can scarcely recognize a blessing in disguise except when it is bestowed upon someone else. <br/>&mdash; Robert Lynd"
qotD[1781] = "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. <br/>&mdash; Brendan Behan"
qotD[1782] = "We are all born mad. Some remain so. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Beckett"
qotD[1783] = "No wise man ever wished to be younger. <br/>&mdash; Jonathan Swift"
qotD[1784] = "Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1785] = "With bread, all grief is less. <br/>&mdash; Armenian Proverb"
qotD[1786] = "A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[1787] = "Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[1788] = "The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1789] = "We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[1790] = "When government takes responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. <br/>&mdash; George Pataki"
qotD[1791] = "The USA is the greatest nation, not because Americans are inherently superior, but because its government was founded on principles which seek to allow maximum individual achievement. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1792] = "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. <br/>&mdash; Rev. William J. H. Boetcker"
qotD[1793] = "Wealth hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[1794] = "The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. <br/>&mdash; Charles Dickens"
qotD[1795] = "You might not be able to outthink, outmarket, or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them. <br/>&mdash; Lou Holtz"
qotD[1796] = "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. <br/>&mdash; Indira Gandhi"
qotD[1797] = "Wealth is not acquired, as many persons suppose, by fortunate speculations and splendid enterprises, but by the daily practice of industry, frugality, and economy. He who relies upon these means will rarely be found destitute, and he who relies upon any other, will generally become bankrupt. <br/>&mdash; Francis Wayland"
qotD[1798] = "You have put your finger on the dilemma of all government, and the reason I am an anarchist. The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys. <br/>&mdash; Robert A. Heinlein"
qotD[1799] = "The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[1800] = "Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and looks down upon the world with contempt; but a truly noble and resolved spirit appears greatest in distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous. <br/>&mdash; Plutarch"
qotD[1801] = "Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. <br/>&mdash; Louis Pasteur"
qotD[1802] = "The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy&mdash;invincible determination&mdash;a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. <br/>&mdash; Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton"
qotD[1803] = "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1804] = "No matter how brilliant a person may be, that person will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage. <br/>&mdash; J. Lawton Collins"
qotD[1805] = "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. <br/>&mdash; Ella Wheeler Wilcox"
qotD[1806] = "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1807] = "A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[1808] = "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it&mdash;but all that had gone before. <br/>&mdash; Jacob Riis"
qotD[1809] = "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Hawking"
qotD[1810] = "Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth&mdash;more than ruin&mdash;more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1811] = "You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength. <br/>&mdash; Gillian Anderson"
qotD[1812] = "Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. <br/>&mdash; Agatha Christie"
qotD[1813] = "No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime. <br/>&mdash; James T. McCay"
qotD[1814] = "Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[1815] = "A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? <br/>&mdash; Jane Wagner"
qotD[1816] = "If you want a crop for one year, grow grain; if you want a crop for ten years, grow a tree; if you want a crop for a hundred years, grow men. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[1817] = "There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.<br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[1818] = "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. <br/>&mdash; Ephesians 2:8"
qotD[1819] = "We can't learn from one another, until we stop shouting at one another... until our words can be heard. <br/>&mdash; Richard Nixon"
qotD[1820] = "A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned&mdash;this is the sum of good government. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1821] = "If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. <br/>&mdash; Rose Kennedy"
qotD[1822] = "Does anyone ever feel like they've been villanized fairly? <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[1823] = "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so. <br/>&mdash; William Ralph Inge"
qotD[1824] = "He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1825] = "No man is rich enough to waste his money in putting on style. <br/>&mdash; Gustavits F. Swift"
qotD[1826] = "Money is a needful and precious thing&mdash;and, when well used, a noble thing&mdash;but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace. <br/>&mdash; Louisa May Alcott"
qotD[1827] = "Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. <br/>&mdash; Joe Moore"
qotD[1828] = "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. <br/>&mdash; Robert Frost"
qotD[1829] = "Responsibility is the price of greatness. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[1830] = "There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed. <br/>&mdash; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis"
qotD[1831] = "Anger of the mind is poison to the soul. <br/>&mdash; Ecuadorian Proverb"
qotD[1832] = "Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1833] = "The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, &quot;The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Joseph Addison"
qotD[1834] = "It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. <br/>&mdash; Dale Carnegie"
qotD[1835] = "Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. <br/>&mdash; Albert Camus"
qotD[1836] = "When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there. <br/>&mdash; Everett Dirksen"
qotD[1837] = "Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[1838] = "Money is like a sixth sense, and you can't make use of the other five without it. <br/>&mdash; W. Somerset Maugham"
qotD[1839] = "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[1840] = "Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity. <br/>&mdash; Arnold Bennett"
qotD[1841] = "Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. <br/>&mdash; Charles Dickens"
qotD[1842] = "Experience is what we call the accumulation of our mistakes. <br/>&mdash; Yiddish Proverb"
qotD[1843] = "All free people stand on Reagan's shoulders. His principled policies proved that free markets create wealth, that the rule of law sustains freedom, and that all people everywhere deserve the right to dream, to pursue their dreams, and to govern themselves. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[1844] = "How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place, even I would be an ardent patriot. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[1845] = "The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. <br/>&mdash; H. G. Wells"
qotD[1846] = "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Mitchell"
qotD[1847] = "Another man's poison is not necessarily yours. <br/>&mdash; English Proverb"
qotD[1848] = "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. <br/>&mdash; Ivan Turgenev"
qotD[1849] = "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. <br/>&mdash; Gilda Radner"
qotD[1850] = "Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. <br/>&mdash; M. Scott Peck"
qotD[1851] = "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. <br/>&mdash; Gen. George S. Patton, Jr."
qotD[1852] = "How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1853] = "Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick. <br/>&mdash; John Wayne"
qotD[1854] = "Ammunition beats persuasion when you are looking for freedom. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[1855] = "To do my duty, I must obey God. <br/>&mdash; Roy Moore"
qotD[1856] = "The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1857] = "Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. <br/>&mdash; Marcus Aurelius Antoninus"
qotD[1858] = "Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men. <br/>&mdash; E. B. White"
qotD[1859] = "The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But, no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. <br/>&mdash; Rudyard Kipling"
qotD[1860] = "Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[1861] = "There are people who have money and people who are rich. <br/>&mdash; Geoffrey Chaucer"
qotD[1862] = "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[1863] = "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. <br/>&mdash; Herman Melville"
qotD[1864] = "The weapon of the dictator is not so much propaganda as censorship. <br/>&mdash; Terence H. Qualter"
qotD[1865] = "Sanity may be madness, but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be. <br/>&mdash; Don Quixote"
qotD[1866] = "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found a way to serve. <br/>&mdash; Albert Schweitzer"
qotD[1867] = "Men of ideas vanish when freedom vanishes. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[1868] = "O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! <br/>&mdash; Sir Walter Scott"
qotD[1869] = "There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all. <br/>&mdash; Antonin Scalia"
qotD[1870] = "No legacy is so rich as honesty. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[1871] = "If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1872] = "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[1873] = "A great fortune is a great slavery. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[1874] = "Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom. <br/>&mdash; Oswald Spengler"
qotD[1875] = "We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. <br/>&mdash; Norman Vincent Peale"
qotD[1876] = "A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[1877] = "If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1878] = "Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function. <br/>&mdash; Ernest Hemingway"
qotD[1879] = "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true. <br/>&mdash; Nathaniel Hawthorne"
qotD[1880] = "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1881] = "We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1882] = "Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[1883] = "Have we the means of resisting disciplined armies, when our only defense, the militia, is put in the hands of Congress? <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[1884] = "You can never get enough of what you don't really need. <br/>&mdash; Eric Hoffer"
qotD[1885] = "While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[1886] = "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. <br/>&mdash; William Ralph Inge"
qotD[1887] = "Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own. <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[1888] = "There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans... and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher"
qotD[1889] = "There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble. <br/>&mdash; Washington Irving"
qotD[1890] = "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. <br/>&mdash; Rose Lane"
qotD[1891] = "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. <br/>&mdash; Harper Lee"
qotD[1892] = "To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[1893] = "Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[1894] = "Ludwig von Mises, that great economist, once noted: &quot;People must fight for something they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil.&quot; Well, the conservative movement remains in the ascendancy because we have a bold, forward-looking agenda. No longer can it be said that conservatives are just anti-Communist. We are, and proudly so, but we are also the keepers of the flame of liberty. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1895] = "Estimates of future volume of production, future sales, future costs, or future profits or losses are not facts, but speculative anticipations. There are no facts about future profits. <br/>&mdash; Ludwig von Mises"
qotD[1896] = "In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool. <br/>&mdash; Yiddish Proverb"
qotD[1897] = "I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[1898] = "A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. <br/>&mdash; Grover Cleveland"
qotD[1899] = "A shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. <br/>&mdash; Carl Gustav Jung"
qotD[1900] = "The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely. <br/>&mdash; Julian Simon"
qotD[1901] = "Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. <br/>&mdash; Kenneth Clarke"
qotD[1902] = "For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. <br/>&mdash; Albert Greenfield"
qotD[1903] = "I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is&mdash;I could be just as proud for half the money. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Godfrey"
qotD[1904] = "It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[1905] = "The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Willkie"
qotD[1906] = "Man lives more by affirmation than by bread. <br/>&mdash; Victor Hugo"
qotD[1907] = "Love is fickle, conservatism is forever. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[1908] = "Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power, but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse. <br/>&mdash; Alexis De Tocqueville"
qotD[1909] = "If you let everyone walk over you, you become a carpet. <br/>&mdash; Bulgarian Proverb"
qotD[1910] = "We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. <br/>&mdash; Aldous Huxley"
qotD[1911] = "Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair. <br/>&mdash; Dorothy Parker"
qotD[1912] = "Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals? <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[1913] = "Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Disraeli"
qotD[1914] = "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Vaull Starr"
qotD[1915] = "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted, but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[1916] = "Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more. <br/>&mdash; Greg Webster"
qotD[1917] = "When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. <br/>&mdash; Pema Chodron"
qotD[1918] = "You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[1919] = "Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And, they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. <br/>&mdash; Larry Bird"
qotD[1920] = "Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1921] = "The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people&mdash;that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[1922] = "Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. <br/>&mdash; C. S. Lewis"
qotD[1923] = "I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1924] = "Happiness is a positive cash flow. <br/>&mdash; Fred Adler"
qotD[1925] = "Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Addison"
qotD[1926] = "I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also. <br/>&mdash; Harold H. Greene"
qotD[1927] = "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. <br/>&mdash; Marcus Aurelius"
qotD[1928] = "Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. <br/>&mdash; William John Bennett"
qotD[1929] = "When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. <br/>&mdash; Ethiopian Proverb"
qotD[1930] = "Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers. <br/>&mdash; John S. Bonnell"
qotD[1931] = "All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. <br/>&mdash; Daniel Boone"
qotD[1932] = "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[1933] = "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[1934] = "Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. <br/>&mdash; Will Smith"
qotD[1935] = "The decision that politicians are wiser, kinder, and more honest than we are and that they, not we, should control the dispensation of eleemosynary goods and services is, in itself, a diminishment of the individual and proof that we're jerks. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[1936] = "The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. <br/>&mdash; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi"
qotD[1937] = "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[1938] = "I believe that good things come to those who work. <br/>&mdash; Wilt Chamberlain"
qotD[1939] = "My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself. <br/>&mdash; Noel Coward"
qotD[1940] = "The more one works, the more willing one is to work. <br/>&mdash; Lord Chesterfield"
qotD[1941] = "No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. <br/>&mdash; John Ruskin"
qotD[1942] = "The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them. <br/>&mdash; Bill Vaughan"
qotD[1943] = "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[1944] = "Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[1945] = "We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions. <br/>&mdash; Richard Steele"
qotD[1946] = "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. <br/>&mdash; John Barrymore"
qotD[1947] = "I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. <br/>&mdash; Henry J. Kaiser"
qotD[1948] = "Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. <br/>&mdash; Neil Kendall"
qotD[1949] = "There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1950] = "If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[1951] = "A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. <br/>&mdash; Denis Waitley"
qotD[1952] = "Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so. <br/>&mdash; Marcia Wieder"
qotD[1953] = "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. <br/>&mdash; William Butler Yeats"
qotD[1954] = "Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1955] = "The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[1956] = "A rising tide lifts all boats. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[1957] = "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. <br/>&mdash; Peter Jennings"
qotD[1958] = "Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. <br/>&mdash; Mark Van Doren"
qotD[1959] = "Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. <br/>&mdash; Elbert Hubbard"
qotD[1960] = "It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[1961] = "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. <br/>&mdash; Karl Marx"
qotD[1962] = "Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. <br/>&mdash; Clint Eastwood"
qotD[1963] = "Remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be. <br/>&mdash; J. Paul Getty"
qotD[1964] = "When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state. <br/>&mdash; Xun Zi"
qotD[1965] = "I've always found it very sanitary to be broke. <br/>&mdash; Orson Welles"
qotD[1966] = "The rich worry over their money, the poor over their bread. <br/>&mdash; Vietnamese Proverb"
qotD[1967] = "I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it. <br/>&mdash; Jack Nicholson"
qotD[1968] = "With Christianity, your sins are forgiven, the slate is wiped clean and your eternal life is guaranteed through nothing you did yourself, even though you don't deserve it. It's the best deal in the universe. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[1969] = "Honesty is the best policy&mdash;when there is money in it. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[1970] = "Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[1971] = "The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. <br/>&mdash; Sir Arthur Helps"
qotD[1972] = "Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[1973] = "I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. <br/>&mdash; Shaquille O'Neal"
qotD[1974] = "Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did. <br/>&mdash; Henny Youngman"
qotD[1975] = "Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling 'Evian' backward. <br/>&mdash; George Carlin"
qotD[1976] = "Somebody said to me, &quot;But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.&quot; That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, &quot;Now, let's write a swimming pool.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Paul McCartney"
qotD[1977] = "I made my money the old fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[1978] = "Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. <br/>&mdash; Pat Buchanan"
qotD[1979] = "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[1980] = "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[1981] = "I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. <br/>&mdash; Victor Borge"
qotD[1982] = "It's no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[1983] = "Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient. <br/>&mdash; Milton Berle"
qotD[1984] = "It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[1985] = "Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position, and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. <br/>&mdash; Jean De La Bruyere"
qotD[1986] = "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. <br/>&mdash; Aeschylus"
qotD[1987] = "I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. <br/>&mdash; Joe Louis"
qotD[1988] = "Idleness is the key of poverty. <br/>&mdash; Romanian Proverb"
qotD[1989] = "Amateurs hope. Professionals work. <br/>&mdash; Garson Kanin"
qotD[1990] = "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. <br/>&mdash; Albert Giacometti"
qotD[1991] = "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends, there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. <br/>&mdash; Thomas A. Edison"
qotD[1992] = "I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. <br/>&mdash; Charles Evans Hughes"
qotD[1993] = "If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. <br/>&mdash; Robert Louis Stevenson"
qotD[1994] = "If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. <br/>&mdash; Claude McDonald"
qotD[1995] = "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[1996] = "Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles. <br/>&mdash; Sandra Day O'Connor"
qotD[1997] = "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, &quot;Certainly, I can!&quot; Then get busy and find out how to do it. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[1998] = "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. <br/>&mdash; Peter Drucker"
qotD[1999] = "Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men disgrace labor. <br/>&mdash; Ulysses S. Grant"
qotD[2000] = "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2001] = "By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree. <br/>&mdash; Cameroonian Proverb"
qotD[2002] = "Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[2003] = "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2004] = "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[2005] = "I firmly believe kids don't want your understanding. They want your trust, your compassion, your blinding love and your car keys, but you try to understand them, and you're in big trouble. To me, they remain life's greatest mysteries. <br/>&mdash; Erma Bombeck"
qotD[2006] = "In America, if you put your mind to it, you can have anything you want. You just can't have everything you want. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Baruch"
qotD[2007] = "America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within. <br/>&mdash; Josef Stalin"
qotD[2008] = "You know how Congress is. They'll vote for anything if the thing they vote for will turn around and vote for them. Politics ain't nothing but reciprocity. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[2009] = "Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth. <br/>&mdash; Greek Proverb"
qotD[2010] = "President Obama says he needs nearly a trillion dollars to help kick-start the economy. That's a lot of money. Do you realize with that money, you could give every man and woman and child in this country $3,300? Or, you could buy shoes for everyone in South America for life. Or, you could cover the New York Yankees' payroll for a season and a half. <br/>&mdash; Jay Leno"
qotD[2011] = "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. <br/>&mdash; Adam Smith"
qotD[2012] = "The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics, it becomes necessarily the supreme rule. <br/>&mdash; Fredrich August von Hayek"
qotD[2013] = "Using long, drawn-out processes to put money into circulation to meet an emergency is like mailing a letter to the fire department to tell them that your house is on fire. If you cut taxes tomorrow, people would have more money in their next paycheck, and it would probably be spent by the time they got that paycheck, through increased credit card purchases beforehand. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2014] = "I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow, they came from the heart of a great nation&mdash; from our experience, our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2015] = "Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[2016] = "As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[2017] = "A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[2018] = "I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[2019] = "Didn't you ever wonder if the witch doctors themselves thought dropping a virgin in the volcano would really bring good crops? I'm thinking they didn't. But it kept them in their witch-doctor jobs and gave them a few final moments in private with the virgins. And that, boys and girls, is how government works. <br/>&mdash; Randall Hoven"
qotD[2020] = "What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires&mdash;how many aspirations after goodness and truth&mdash;how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause! <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[2021] = "One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. <br/>&mdash; Finley Peter Dunne"
qotD[2022] = "Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell" 
qotD[2023] = "Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10, the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim. <br/>&mdash; James A. Garfield"
qotD[2024] = "I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. <br/>&mdash; Dwight D. Eisenhower"
qotD[2025] = "The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. <br/>&mdash; G. K. Chesterton"
qotD[2026] = "Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[2027] = "Freedom will never go out of style. We will never, ever say hopefully &quot;the era of freedom is over.&quot; We will never say &quot;the era of liberty is over.&quot; And as such, we will make a huge mistake if we fall in line with these dummkopfs, who think they're the smartest in our room, who say &quot;the era of Reagan is over.&quot; Because the era of Reagan is basic Conservatism 101 which believes, what? The best in everybody. It does not look across a room of people with contempt. It does not look and see incompetence. It doesn't see black, white, male, female, gay, straight. It sees human beings. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2028] = "It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable. <br/>&mdash; George Eliot"
qotD[2029] = "Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[2030] = "The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. <br/>&mdash; Sallust"
qotD[2031] = "Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness&mdash;great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. <br/>&mdash; Jim Rohn"
qotD[2032] = "Well, I think it's pretty clear in the original document, the Declaration of Independence of the Founding Fathers, that we are endowed by our Creator certain inalienable rights which are the rights of liberty, life and the pursuit of happiness. And I think what every listener needs to understand is that in the minds of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the people who wrote that document, they literally meant that your rights come from God, that you then loan them to the government, which is why the Declaration of Independence begins &quot;We the people...&quot;. And, therefore, if we drive God out of the public square, we drive out the source of our own rights and our own source of power. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[2033] = "Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but, knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space, and indefinite in duration. <br/>&mdash; DeWitt Clinton"
qotD[2034] = "The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied. <br/>&mdash; Lucretius"
qotD[2035] = "History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Willkie"
qotD[2036] = "He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. <br/>&mdash; W. Somerset Maugham"
qotD[2037] = "In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell" 
qotD[2038] = "Listening is the only way to entertain some folks. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[2039] = "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap! <br/>&mdash; Dolly Parton"
qotD[2040] = "If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash. <br/>&mdash; Jack London"
qotD[2041] = "The jobless rate has jumped to 7.6 percent, the worst since 1974, and economists are now worried this could lead to a resurgence of disco. <br/>&mdash; Jay Leno"
qotD[2042] = "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. <br/>&mdash; Eric Hoffer"
qotD[2043] = "More than any other game, football illustrates our virtues as a people, reflecting our national identity and values. ...Perhaps the most important value football can remind Americans of today is justice. Americans love football because it rewards those who deserve to be rewarded. It does this because its rules are well known, commonsensical, and unchanging during any particular game and season, and also because what it takes to win in football transcends the natural physical talents of those who play it. ...It is why Americans are perennially optimistic. We believe in ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Terence Jeffrey"
qotD[2044] = "Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2045] = "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair. <br/>&mdash; George Burns"
qotD[2046] = "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[2047] = "Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. <br/>&mdash; Plato"
qotD[2048] = "Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[2049] = "In war time, a president does have certain extraordinary powers which would make acts that would otherwise be unlawful, lawful if undertaken for the purpose of preserving the nation and the Constitution, which is essential for the rights we're all talking about. <br/>&mdash; Richard Nixon"
qotD[2050] = "Jesus said to him, &quot;I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Bible, John 14:6"
qotD[2051] = "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[2052] = "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2053] = "The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2054] = "If you don't read, the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2055] = "Inherited wealth is a big handicap to happiness. It is as certain death to ambition as cocaine is to morality. <br/>&mdash; William K. Vanderbilt"
qotD[2056] = "It does not take a majority to prevail ...but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Adams"
qotD[2057] = "A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. <br/>&mdash; Alfred Adler"
qotD[2058] = "We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct. <br/>&mdash; James A. Garfield"
qotD[2059] = "People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. <br/>&mdash; Paulo Coelho"
qotD[2060] = "We focus on the negative and our politicians stoke our unhappiness all the more. They bribe us with our own money, promising to expand the government to address the grievances that they promote. But we ought to be careful what we wish for. <br/>&mdash; Tom Purcell"
qotD[2061] = "I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[2062] = "Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[2063] = "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2064] = "What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven. <br/>&mdash; Friedrich Holderlin"
qotD[2065] = "He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally. <br/>&mdash; Lawana Blackwell"
qotD[2066] = "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[2067] = "Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. <br/>&mdash; Al Capp"
qotD[2068] = "Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[2069] = "The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. <br/>&mdash; George Gilder"
qotD[2070] = "Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own private initiative. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Gompers"
qotD[2071] = "Poor people stop being poor when they lose habits, when they stop thinking poor and start creating wealth. This doesn't mean becoming rich; it just means producing wealth, working. ...The concerns of the poor have never been addressed by anyone. The liberals have simply said they were addressing them, but kept people poor by putting them on welfare. <br/>&mdash; Karl Hess"
qotD[2072] = "There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life. <br/>&mdash; Eric Hoffer"
qotD[2073] = "Every man who has any regard to his own happiness and welfare, will find his best reward in the practice of every moral duty. <br/>&mdash; Thomas H. Huxley"
qotD[2074] = "Any civilization which respects itself admits to its basic responsibility of providing for its members in need. But few civilizations have achieved greatness by treating all their members as needy. Martin Brian Mulroney"
qotD[2075] = "We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2076] = "In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called &quot;social justice&quot; might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2077] = "The longer I live the more I find it necessary to re-examine those things about which I was once most certain. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[2078] = "Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new, but cannot let go of the old&mdash;old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases, we have to DO something. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2079] = "Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. <br/>&mdash; William F. Buckley, Jr."
qotD[2080] = "Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2081] = "And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity, they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[2082] = "Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it. <br/>&mdash; Cecil Palmer"
qotD[2083] = "Wisdom comes by disillusionment. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[2084] = "Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mind acts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts. <br/>&mdash; Zig Ziglar"
qotD[2085] = "To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[2086] = "It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. <br/>&mdash; Anatole France"
qotD[2087] = "Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[2088] = "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, &quot;I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.&quot; You must do the thing you think you cannot do. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Roosevelt"
qotD[2089] = "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. <br/>&mdash; Charles Swindoll"
qotD[2090] = "There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2091] = "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American peoples' liberty teeth and keystone under independence... From the hour the pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security, and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable... The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference &mdash; they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. <br/>&mdash; George Washington" 
qotD[2092] = "What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roethke"
qotD[2093] = "The mode in which government can most surely demonstrate the sincerity by which intends the greatest good of its subjects is by doing the things which are made incumbent upon it by the helplessness of the public, in such a manner as shall tend not to increase and perpetuate but to correct that helplessness. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[2094] = "I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. <br/>&mdash; Jack London"
qotD[2095] = "Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable. <br/>&mdash; Adolf Loos" 
qotD[2096] = "I would think we all tear up during the national anthem at the beginning of a baseball game, don't we? That's an alikeness between Alaskans and New Yorkers. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[2097] = "If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it. <br/>&mdash; Edgar Watson Howe"
qotD[2098] = "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2099] = "Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. <br/>&mdash; George Gissing"
qotD[2100] = "Without passion, you don't have energy; without energy, you have nothing. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[2101] = "Economics is a useful source of employment for economists. <br/>&mdash; John Kenneth Galbraith"
qotD[2102] = "There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little, and it's always somebody else. <br/>&mdash; Cullen Hightower"
qotD[2103] = "People's wealth and worth are very rarely related. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[2104] = "Money is an essential ingredient to happiness in this world. <br/>&mdash; Alexander Hamilton"
qotD[2105] = "Economics is an entire scientific discipline of not knowing what you're talking about. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2106] = "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. <br/>&mdash; Yogi Berra"
qotD[2107] = "Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[2108] = "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. <br/>&mdash; F. Scott Fitzgerald"
qotD[2109] = "The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[2110] = "The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[2111] = "Many wealthy people are little more than the janitors of their possessions. <br/>&mdash; Frank Lloyd Wright"
qotD[2112] = "There is only one boss, the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. <br/>&mdash; Sam Walton"
qotD[2113] = "To be poor may be a misfortune, but it is not a fault. <br/>&mdash; Mary Harrison"
qotD[2114] = "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[2115] = "Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. <br/>&mdash; Clare Boothe Luce"
qotD[2116] = "A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. <br/>&mdash; Doyle Brunson"
qotD[2117] = "Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man's dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter. <br/>&mdash; Red Smith"
qotD[2118] = "Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving. <br/>&mdash; Dan Millman"
qotD[2119] = "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2120] = "The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts, but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. <br/>&mdash; Gore Vidal"
qotD[2121] = "He who fears something gives it power over him. <br/>&mdash; Moorish Proverb"
qotD[2122] = "My father said: &quot;You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won't have many deals.&quot; <br/>&mdash; J. P. Getty"
qotD[2123] = "Without the Bible, man would be in the midst of a sandy desert, surrounded on all sides by a dark and impenetrable horizon. <br/>&mdash; Daniel Webster"
qotD[2124] = "If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up as it is of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages, and more different in their modes of worship, it would appear that the union of such a people was impracticable; but by the simple operation of constructing government on the principles of society and the rights of man, every difficulty retires, and all the parts are brought into cordial unison. There the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine" 
qotD[2125] = "People who look for easy money invariable pay for the privilege of proving conclusively that it cannot be found on this earth. <br/>&mdash; Jesse Livermore"
qotD[2126] = "People think that working hard for money, and then buying things that make them look rich, will make them rich. In most cases, it doesn't. It only makes them tired. <br/>&mdash; Robert Kiyosaki"
qotD[2127] = "The gains of education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men. <br/>&mdash; Franklin D. Roosevelt"
qotD[2128] = "Money, the root of all evil... but the cure for all sadness. <br/>&mdash; Mike Gill"
qotD[2129] = "To attract money, you must focus on wealth. It is impossible to bring more money into your life when you are noticing you do not have enough, because that means you are thinking thoughts that you do not have enough. <br/>&mdash; Rhonda Byrne"
qotD[2130] = "A people ...who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages, may achieve almost anything. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[2131] = "Never ever walk past money on the street without picking it up, even if it is just a small coin. <br/>&mdash; Stuart Wilde"
qotD[2132] = "The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. <br/>&mdash; Thich Nhat Hanh"
qotD[2133] = "I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[2134] = "The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. <br/>&mdash; Jean Jacques Rousseau"
qotD[2135] = "Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. <br/>&mdash; Robert W. Sarnoff"
qotD[2136] = "One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2137] = "If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal. <br/>&mdash; Katharine Hepburn"
qotD[2138] = "Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy. <br/>&mdash; Rudy Giuliani"
qotD[2139] = "The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. <br/>&mdash; Katharine Whitehorn"
qotD[2140] = "He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. <br/>&mdash; Daniel Webster"
qotD[2141] = "To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit. <br/>&mdash; Publius Terentius Afer" 
qotD[2142] = "The love of money is a vertiginous pool, sucking all in to destiny it. It is troubled and uneven, giddy and unsafe; serving no end but its own, and that also in a restless and uneasy motion. <br/>&mdash; Jeremy Taylor"
qotD[2143] = "Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. <br/>&mdash; Solomon"
qotD[2144] = "The persons who have the most sublime contempt for money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it enables them to procure. <br/>&mdash; William Shenstone"
qotD[2145] = "He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[2146] = "The Declaration of Independence says we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among with are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Notice, unlike the welfare state it doesn't guarantee happiness, it doesn't offer happiness stamps, it doesn't suggest the government should pay therapy for those who have not yet found happiness. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[2147] = "Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.<br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[2148] = "You can't buy heaven with money. <br/>&mdash; Maltese Proverb"
qotD[2149] = "It is wiser to find out than suppose. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2150] = "Thrift is the best means of thriving. <br/>&mdash; Charles J. Hare"
qotD[2151] = "Joy is not in things; it is in us. <br/>&mdash; Richard Wagner"
qotD[2152] = "When a government takes over a people's economic life, it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute, it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties, and the meaning of the people it governs. <br/>&mdash; Maxwell Anderson"
qotD[2153] = "It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have it. <br/>&mdash; Edwin Teale"
qotD[2154] = "When even one American&mdash;who has done nothing wrong&mdash;is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. <br/>&mdash; Harry S. Truman"
qotD[2155] = "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals&mdash;that is, goals that do not inspire them. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[2156] = "Our lives improve only when we take chances&mdash;and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Walter Truett Anderson"
qotD[2157] = "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. <br/>&mdash; Richard Bach"
qotD[2158] = "The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[2159] = "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[2160] = "It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Mead"
qotD[2161] = "You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. <br/>&mdash; Japanese Proverb"
qotD[2162] = "The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[2163] = "Education is the mother of leadership. <br/>&mdash; Wendell Willkie"
qotD[2164] = "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[2165] = "Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. <br/>&mdash; C. Neil Strait"
qotD[2166] = "Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence. <br/>&mdash; John Kenneth Galbraith"
qotD[2167] = "Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it's too late. The time for happiness is today, not tomorrow. <br/>&mdash; Paul H. Dunn"
qotD[2168] = "There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life&mdash;happiness, freedom, and peace of mind&mdash;are always attained by giving them to someone else. <br/>&mdash; Peyton Conway"
qotD[2169] = "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2170] = "As hard as modern man strives to be free, he is a slave chained to the past. <br/>&mdash; Suso Ohno"
qotD[2171] = "This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies. <br/>&mdash; Jos&eacute; Ortega y Gasset"
qotD[2172] = "Sometimes, when leading families or merchants organized a government for their city, they not only provided for some power sharing through voting but took pains to reduce the probability that the government's chief executive could assume autocratic power. For a time in Genoa, for example, the chief administrator of the government had to be an outsider&mdash;and thus someone with no membership in any of the powerful families in the city. Moreover, he was constrained to a fixed term of office, forced to leave the city after the end of his term, and forbidden from marrying into any of the local families. In Venice, after a doge who attempted to make himself autocrat was beheaded for his offense, subsequent doges were followed in official processions by a sword-bearing symbolic executioner as a reminder of the punishment intended for any leader who attempted to assume dictatorial power. <br/>&mdash; Mancur Olson"
qotD[2173] = "There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please. <br/>&mdash; James Otis"
qotD[2174] = "One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. <br/>&mdash; Yevgeny Yevtushenko"
qotD[2175] = "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[2176] = "Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[2177] = "Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want? <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2178] = "The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. The wise and correct course to follow in taxation is not to destroy those who have already secured success, but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful. <br/>&mdash; Calvin Coolidge"
qotD[2179] = "What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude&mdash;and a lot less greed. <br/>&mdash; Michelle Malkin"
qotD[2180] = "The duty of an upright administration is to pursue its course steadily, to know nothing of these family dissentions, and to cherish the good principles of both parties. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2181] = "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. <br/>&mdash; William Saroyan"
qotD[2182] = "The bigger the information media, the less courage and information they allow. Bigness means weakness. <br/>&mdash; Eric Sevareid"
qotD[2183] = "Freedom always carries a burden of proof, always throws us back on ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Shelby Steele"
qotD[2184] = "The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices&mdash;paid by others. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2185] = "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[2186] = "It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2187] = "It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them&mdash;the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. <br/>&mdash; Fyodor Dostoyevski"
qotD[2188] = "The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and time again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club. <br/>&mdash; Dave Barry"
qotD[2189] = "The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher"
qotD[2190] = "We have plenty of freedom in this country, but not a great deal of independence. <br/>&mdash; John W. Raper"
qotD[2191] = "It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. <br/>&mdash; Murray N. Rothbard"
qotD[2192] = "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. <br/>&mdash; Paul Harvey"
qotD[2193] = "Nothing endures but personal qualities. <br/>&mdash; Walt Whitman"
qotD[2194] = "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[2195] = "Some days you're the bug. Some days you're the windshield. <br/>&mdash; Price Cobb"
qotD[2196] = "Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! <br/>&mdash; Miguel de Cervantes"
qotD[2197] = "Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. <br/>&mdash; Abigail Adams"
qotD[2198] = "All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Butler"
qotD[2199] = "Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. <br/>&mdash; Aesop"
qotD[2200] = "I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts, that's when I get in trouble. <br/>&mdash; Angelina Jolie"
qotD[2201] = "Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: &quot;No man should have so much.&quot; The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: &quot;All men should have as much.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Phelps Adams"
qotD[2202] = "Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. <br/>&mdash; Conrad Hilton"
qotD[2203] = "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2204] = "In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. <br/>&mdash; Robert Frost"
qotD[2205] = "If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2206] = "Canada devalued its dollar from 89 cents to 66 cents in the 1990s because this forced reduction in labour costs was the only way our over-taxed economy could remain competitive with the surging American dynamo. We might have used the prosperous years since 1996 to re-engineer our economy in ways that would have encouraged young techies to stay home and that would have stimulated capital investment. Instead, the Chr&eacute;tien government has persisted in treating the tax issue as a selfish concern of the well-to-do. <br/>&mdash; David Frum"
qotD[2207] = "Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God. <br/>&mdash; Bob Marley"
qotD[2208] = "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. <br/>&mdash; Robert Kiyosaki"
qotD[2209] = "Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. <br/>&mdash; Petrarch"
qotD[2210] = "Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower than it would be otherwise. It represents a net lose to the economy as a whole to the extent that many transactions do not take place at all, because the mutually acceptable possibilities have been reduced. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2211] = "Ability is a poor man's wealth. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[2212] = "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[2213] = "You need to understand the difference between an asset and a liability. An asset puts money in your pocket and a liability takes money from your pocket. The rich understand the difference and buy assets, not liabilities. <br/>&mdash; Robert Kiyosaki"
qotD[2214] = "Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[2215] = "...There is much wisdom that requires no genius. It takes no education and no great intellect to know that it is best for children to be raised in two-parent families. Yet, those who dare say this are often accused of trying to impose their values on others. This condemnation does not rest on some great body of counter-evidence; it is purely and simply an in-your-face response. It is, in short, intimidation. For brutes, the most effective tactic is to intimidate an opponent into the silence of self-censorship. <br/>&mdash; Clarence Thomas"
qotD[2216] = "The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. <br/>&mdash; Lee Iaccoca"
qotD[2217] = "Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand. <br/>&mdash; Japanese Proverb"
qotD[2218] = "A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl. <br/>&mdash; Stephan Hoeller"
qotD[2219] = "No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living. <br/>&mdash; James Cash Penney"
qotD[2220] = "Success demands singleness of purpose. <br/>&mdash; Vincent Lombardi"
qotD[2221] = "Govern a family as you would cook a small fish&mdash;very gently. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[2222] = "It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[2223] = "Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. <br/>&mdash; Paul Newman"
qotD[2224] = "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. <br/>&mdash; Ray Bradbury"
qotD[2225] = "If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises. <br/>&mdash; Cullen Hightower"
qotD[2226] = "I don't care if you're brown, black, green, or from Mars; the one thing that every American believes in and will fight for is freedom. And when that freedom is under assault, particularly by a government, Americans will rally. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2227] = "I would propose that no African American use the terms racism or racist. The words are a feckless indulgence, corrosive to blacks and whites alike and to relations between them. Such rhetoric has given blacks a leadership that has built its career upon mere race-grievance agitation, and is therefore profoundly, almost unconsciously committed to its perpetuation. <br/>&mdash; Lance Morrow"
qotD[2228] = "Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life. <br/>&mdash; Shelby Steele"
qotD[2229] = "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. <br/>&mdash; Antonio Smith"
qotD[2230] = "For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses. <br/>&mdash; Sheldon Adelson"
qotD[2231] = "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. <br/>&mdash; Paulo Coelho"
qotD[2232] = "In a big family, the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. <br/>&mdash; Antonin Scalia"
qotD[2233] = "Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances. <br/>&mdash; Sandra Day O'Connor"
qotD[2234] = "Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift? <br/>&mdash; Marcus T. Cicero"
qotD[2235] = "Wisdom makes a weak man strong, a poor man king, a good generation of a bad one, and a foolish man reasonable. <br/>&mdash; Irish Proverb"
qotD[2236] = "You have to fail before you succeed in life. There is not a person reading this that did not fall before they learned to walk. <br/>&mdash; Thomas George"
qotD[2237] = "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands and then eat just one of the pieces. <br/>&mdash; Judith Viorst"
qotD[2238] = "You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. <br/>&mdash; Garth Brooks"
qotD[2239] = "The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving. <br/>&mdash; Sheldon Glueck"
qotD[2240] = "We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2241] = "Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. <br/>&mdash; Oliver Wendell Holmes"
qotD[2242] = "Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2243] = "By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[2244] = "It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2245] = "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. <br/>&mdash; Frederick Douglass"
qotD[2246] = "I've managed to save so much because I live below my means. <br/>&mdash; Brian O'Reilly"
qotD[2247] = "Get close to the seller of perfumes if you want to be fragrant. <br/>&mdash; Arabian Proverb"
qotD[2248] = "The negative part of a conversation is often as important as its positive. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Winthrop"
qotD[2249] = "Being frugal does not mean being cheap! It means being economical and avoiding waste. <br/>&mdash; Catherine Pulsifer"
qotD[2250] = "If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2251] = "A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. <br/>&mdash; Robert Frost"
qotD[2252] = "There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. <br/>&mdash; Adlai Stevenson"
qotD[2253] = "Success is never final and failure never fatal. It is courage that counts. <br/>&mdash; George F. Tilton"
qotD[2254] = "The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. So we have come to a time for choosing. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2255] = "I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[2256] = "One of my favorite quotations about age comes from Thomas Jefferson. He said that we should never judge a president by his age, only by his work. And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. And just to show you how youthful I am, I intend to campaign in all 13 states. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2257] = "Age is the acceptance of the term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. <br/>&mdash; Martha Graham"
qotD[2258] = "Real vision is the ability to see the invisible. <br/>&mdash; Jonathan Swift"
qotD[2259] = "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. <br/>&mdash;Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[2260] = "From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer. <br/>&mdash; Isaac Bashevis Singer"
qotD[2261] = "When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner. <br/>&mdash; Halle Berry"
qotD[2262] = "Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[2263] = "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell" 
qotD[2264] = "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[2265] = "I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test. <br/>&mdash; Robert Fulghum"
qotD[2266] = "Power's not what the Constitution was about. <br/>&mdash; Roy Moore"
qotD[2267] = "Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing. <br/>&mdash; J. Paul Getty"
qotD[2268] = "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. <br/>&mdash; T. S. Eliot"
qotD[2269] = "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. <br/>&mdash; Herm Albright"
qotD[2270] = "The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. <br/>&mdash; Mignon McLaughlin"
qotD[2271] = "Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[2272] = "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[2273] = "A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant, and respectful. <br/>&mdash; Charles W. Pickering"
qotD[2274] = "Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity&mdash;but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[2275] = "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2276] = "I know He hears me when I just call out to Him, which I do a lot. Oh, yes, I pray. I talk to God every day. I've put my life, so I put my day, into God's hands, and I just ask for guidance and wisdom and grace to get through one situation after another. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[2277] = "Cultivated people seek from themselves; small people seek from others. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[2278] = "Once an unabashedly pious land, we have been transformed into a nation of historically clueless ingrates&mdash;embarrassed about our heritage, afraid of offending all newcomers, and more committed to inculcating a sense of entitlement over a culture of gratitude. <br/>&mdash; Michelle Malkin"
qotD[2279] = "Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2280] = "One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[2281] = "Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. <br/>&mdash; Harold H. Greene"
qotD[2282] = "Now and then, it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. <br/>&mdash; Guillaume Apollinaire"
qotD[2283] = "When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[2284] = "In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me, neither. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2285] = "I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough. <br/>&mdash; Felix Frankfurter" 
qotD[2286] = "To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius. <br/>&mdash; Will Henry"
qotD[2287] = "Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2288] = "The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. <br/>&mdash; Thomas H. Huxley"
qotD[2289] = "Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all these facts, and cut out the key line of the Declaration of Independence: We are endowed by our Creator. I mean you have to have a conscious deliberate censorship of America, which is what the left and the courts and the classrooms has had for 40 years. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[2290] = "Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Disraeli"
qotD[2291] = "Poor and content is rich and rich enough. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare"
qotD[2292] = "We should all do what in the long run gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. <br/>&mdash; E. B. White"
qotD[2293] = "I think the most un-American thing you can say is, &quot;You can't say that.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[2294] = "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2295] = "Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2296] = "The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2297] = "An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. <br/>&mdash; Bill Bernbach"
qotD[2298] = "Rather the pain of discipline, than the pain of regret. <br/>&mdash; Bob Andrews"
qotD[2299] = "Things do not change; we change. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[2300] = "Wealth has wings. <br/>&mdash; Sophocles"
qotD[2301] = "He that is without money is a bird without wings. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Fuller"
qotD[2302] = "Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little. <br/>&mdash; Adam Smith"
qotD[2303] = "One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. <br/>&mdash; Washington Irving"
qotD[2304] = "Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy. <br/>&mdash; Groucho Marx"
qotD[2305] = "Can implementing the three R's&mdash;reduce, recycle, reuse&mdash;save you money? If you only implemented the three R's in your kitchen, you would save money. <br/>&mdash; Catherine Pulsifer"
qotD[2306] = "What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. <br/>&mdash;Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[2307] = "The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her. <br/>&mdash; H. Ross Perot"
qotD[2308] = "To mistake money for wealth is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway, which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[2309] = "A credit card is a money tool, not a supplement to money. The failure to make this distinction has &quot;supplemented&quot; many a poor soul right into bankruptcy. <br/>&mdash; Paula Nelson"
qotD[2310] = "Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[2311] = "Conservatism sees Americans, sees potential, sees great opportunity, sees an opportunity for people to be the best they can be using whatever ambition and desire they have. Reaganism conservatism does not need to be adapted to issues of the day. There's no such thing as the conservative version of Big Government. That is a sellout of conservatism. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2312] = "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency, a great soul has simply nothing to do. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2313] = "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. <br/>&mdash; H. Jackson Brown, Jr."
qotD[2314] = "Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. <br/>&mdash; Ausonius"
qotD[2315] = "You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. <br/>&mdash; Amy Carmichael"
qotD[2316] = "If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the ones who gave up. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Maslow"
qotD[2317] = "To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2318] = "I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. <br/>&mdash; Helena Rubinstein"
qotD[2319] = "Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2320] = "I don't like work&mdash;no man does&mdash;but I like what is in work&mdash;the chance to find yourself. Your own reality&mdash;for yourself, not for others&mdash;what no other man can ever know. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Conrad"
qotD[2321] = "In every great time, there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[2322] = "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. <br/>&mdash; Gen. George S. Patton, Jr."
qotD[2323] = "What I discovered in Somalia is a place where there was no shortage of food ...There was a shortage of public order. There was a shortage of a social system to provide food for people who were powerless. Rice was selling in Mogadishu at 10 cents a kilo&mdash;the cheapest rice in the world because of all the rice that had been donated. The problem was that if you didn't have a gun in Mogadishu you didn't have 10 cents. It didn't matter how cheap or readily available the rice was. There were people with guns taking it away from the people who didn't have guns. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2324] = "Say only what is good and helpful to those you are talking to, and what will give them a blessing. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Ephesians 4:29"
qotD[2325] = "He who knows he has enough is rich. <br/>&mdash; Lao Tzu"
qotD[2326] = "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2327] = "Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[2328] = "I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. <br/>&mdash; Jules Renard"
qotD[2329] = "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2330] = "What &quot;entitlements&quot; for some people mean is forcing other people to work for their benefit. As a bumper sticker put it: &quot;Work harder. Millions of people on welfare are depending on you.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2331] = "The first step to improvement, whether mental, moral, or religious, is to know ourselves&mdash;our weakness,errors, deficiencies, and sins, that, by divine grace, we may overcome and turn from them all. <br/>&mdash; Tryon Edwards"
qotD[2332] = "To me, I just view everything as an experience. We label it &quot;failure&quot; or &quot;success,&quot; when in fact it's just an experience. And we can learn from every experience&mdash;good, bad, or indifferent. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Shapiro"
qotD[2333] = "To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. <br/>&mdash; Frederick Douglass"
qotD[2334] = "If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? <br/>&mdash; Van Wyck Brooks"
qotD[2335] = "Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. <br/>&mdash; Spike Milligan"
qotD[2336] = "You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. <br/>&mdash; Dale Earnhardt"
qotD[2337] = "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell" 
qotD[2338] = "There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[2339] = "Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[2340] = "Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2341] = "One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[2342] = "The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. <br/>&mdash; Rupert Murdoch" 
qotD[2343] = "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2344] = "Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. <br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[2345] = "Never let yesterday use up too much of today. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[2346] = "He who would be rich has not to pick up money, but to diminish his wants. <br/>&mdash; Spanish Proverb"
qotD[2347] = "A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[2348] = "Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. <br/>&mdash; H. H. Munro"
qotD[2349] = "I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. <br/>&mdash; Earl Warren"
qotD[2350] = "Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. <br/>&mdash; Augustine of Hippo"
qotD[2351] = "A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. <br/>&mdash; Raymond Hitchcock"
qotD[2352] = "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[2353] = "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2354] = "You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. <br/>&mdash; Diana Ross"
qotD[2355] = "Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. <br/>&mdash; Adlai Stevenson"
qotD[2356] = "Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. <br/>&mdash; Nigerian Proverb"
qotD[2357] = "Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. <br/>&mdash; John Locke"
qotD[2358] = "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[2359] = "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[2360] = "A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[2361] = "Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. <br/>&mdash; Richard Nixon"
qotD[2362] = "In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. <br/>&mdash; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
qotD[2363] = "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. <br/>&mdash; Charles M. Schulz"
qotD[2364] = "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[2365] = "Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated. <br/>&mdash; Robert C. Savage"
qotD[2366] = "If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize, then the first step is to recognize the enemy. Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy. The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy. And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy. An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization, which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans. <br/>&mdash; Charley Reese"
qotD[2367] = "Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[2368] = "Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[2369] = "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[2370] = "Take nothing for granted in your daily life. <br/>&mdash; Michelle Malkin"
qotD[2371] = "If inflation continues to soar, you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one. <br/>&mdash; George Gobel"
qotD[2372] = "An important person should be treated exactly like anyone else holding a gun at your head. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2373] = "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. <br/>&mdash; Laertius Diogenes"
qotD[2374] = "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell" 
qotD[2375] = "Money isn't everything, but it sure keeps you in touch with your children. <br/>&mdash; J. Paul Getty"
qotD[2376] = "The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivalry of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2377] = "It is harder to be poor without complaining than to be rich without boasting. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[2378] = "Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. <br/>&mdash; Ulysses S. Grant"
qotD[2379] = "If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knocks at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it. <br/>&mdash; Udan Sutta"
qotD[2380] = "I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly. <br/>&mdash; Ty Cobb"
qotD[2381] = "When spiders unite, they can tie up a lion. <br/>&mdash; Ethiopian Proverb"
qotD[2382] = "Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. <br/>&mdash; George Will"
qotD[2383] = "We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget that the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Campbell"
qotD[2384] = "Our founders long ago warned Americans that only a God-fearing, informed, and virtuous people can remain a free people, for these practices lend themselves to self-determination (impulse-control) and the cultivation of higher reason and logic, hence to individual liberty and our form of self-government. In the words of Patrick Henry&mdash;Christian patriot, governor of Virginia, revolutionary general, 'The Voice of Liberty,' and signer of the US Constitution: 'The great pillars of all government and of social life (are) virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.'  <br/>&mdash; Linda Kimball"
qotD[2385] = "Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good. <br/>&mdash; Ayn Rand"
qotD[2386] = "Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. <br/>&mdash; Robert A. Heinlein"
qotD[2387] = "For people in Gen X or Gen Y, there is a lesson here: Small is beautiful and less is more. The old-fashioned virtues of saving and prudence still hold true. The show-offs will pay for their showing off. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[2388] = "To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, &quot;the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2389] = "Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. <br/>&mdash; George Santayana"
qotD[2390] = "The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. <br/>&mdash; Oliver Wendell Holmes"
qotD[2391] = "I am proud to say that I am one of the brave and few in this country not asking for a federal bailout, and the reason why I'm not asking for a bailout is because I have brains. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2392] = "It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2393] = "So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[2394] = "Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[2395] = "We baby boomers have caused everything since 1946. We'll keep buying stocks until we retire. But when we hit sixty-five, we're going to sell stocks. And the stock market is going to go down. And we're going to wet ourselves. The math is simple: 1946 + 65 = 2011. Buy stocks until 2011, and then buy Depends. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2396] = "The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2397] = "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. <br/>&mdash; Emily Dickinson"
qotD[2398] = "The path to success is to take massive, determined action. <br/>&mdash; Anthony Robbins"
qotD[2399] = "Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. <br/>&mdash; Bill Cosby"
qotD[2400] = "True Socialism, in which everyone is truly equal, does not just resemble a prison&mdash;it is a prison. It can not exist unless it is surrounded by high walls, by watchtowers and by guard-dogs, for people always want to escape from any socialist regime, just as they do from a prison. If you continue your attempts to establish a model society, you will need to build walls around it. You will be forced to do so sooner or later by the flood of refugees. Viktor Suvorov"
qotD[2401] = "In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. <br/>&mdash; Spiro T. Agnew"
qotD[2402] = "America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. <br/>&mdash; Louis D. Brandeis" 
qotD[2403] = "The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. <br/>&mdash; Robertson Davies" 
qotD[2404] = "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! <br/>&mdash; Emma Lazarus"
qotD[2405] = "Most of us value things more than we value money, which is why most of us have more things in our closets and cupboards than we do money in our bank accounts. <br/>&mdash; Suze Orman"
qotD[2406] = "Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars. <br/>&mdash; Hunter S. Thompson"
qotD[2407] = "If you believe that dreams can come true, be prepared for the occasional nightmare, too. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[2408] = "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. <br/>&mdash; Seneca"
qotD[2409] = "When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing. <br/>&mdash; Bernard Baruch"
qotD[2410] = "People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. <br/>&mdash; Lucille Clifton"
qotD[2411] = "Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[2412] = "Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[2413] = "As the Spanish proverb says, &quot;He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.&quot; So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[2414] = "In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet, even then, it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward. Blessed beyond all earthly blessedness is the man who, in the tempestuous darkness of the soul, has dared to hold fast to these venerable landmarks. Thrice blest is he who, when all is dreary and cheerless within and without, when his teachers terrify him, and friends shrink from him, has obstinately clung to moral good. <br/>&mdash; Frederick William Robertson"
qotD[2415] = "Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties&mdash;provided we're only talking about criminals. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[2416] = "A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. <br/>&mdash; Bo Bennett" 
qotD[2417] = "Time is a treasure; don't waste it wrongly. <br/>&mdash; Spanish Proverb"
qotD[2418] = "Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be. <br/>&mdash; John Wayne"
qotD[2419] = "Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. <br/>&mdash; George W. Bush"
qotD[2420] = "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid. <br/>&mdash; Dwight D. Eisenhower"
qotD[2421] = "The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2422] = "Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[2423] = "We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2424] = "Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[2425] = "Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin. <br/>&mdash; James Thurber"
qotD[2426] = "Elections should be held on April 16th&mdash;the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2427] = "No pressure, no diamonds. <br/>&mdash; Mary Case"
qotD[2428] = "You have a real Constitution that protects freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom of speech, and freedom of conscience. These protections are among the most far-reaching of any in the region and probably around the world. <br/>&mdash; Elizabeth Cheney"
qotD[2429] = "The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. <br/>&mdash; Hugo Black"
qotD[2430] = "The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2431] = "The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2432] = "It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, who is poor. <br/>&mdash; Seneca the Younger"
qotD[2433] = "Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. <br/>&mdash; Nathaniel Hawthorne"
qotD[2434] = "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[2435] = "If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all organizations with titles beginning with the word Quot;National.quot; <br/>&mdash; George F. Will"
qotD[2436] = "That's one of the things I look forward to about an evening like this&mdash;someone to drink tea with at the end of it. For all I know, the point of civilization is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening. <br/>&mdash; Aurora Greenway"
qotD[2437] = "The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[2438] = "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. <br/>&mdash; Frederick Keonig"
qotD[2439] = "Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can&mdash;there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Caldwell"
qotD[2440] = "Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. <br/>&mdash; Ashley Smith"
qotD[2441] = "Life is a long lesson in humility. <br/>&mdash; Sir James M. Barrie"
qotD[2442] = "In my many years, I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[2443] = "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. <br/>&mdash; James Bovard"
qotD[2444] = "No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2445] = "Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. <br/>&mdash; Frederic Bastiat"
qotD[2446] = "If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. <br/>&mdash; Marcus T. Cicero"
qotD[2447] = "What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. <br/>&mdash; Edward Langley"
qotD[2448] = "Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. <br/>&mdash; Pericles"
qotD[2449] = "You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires. <br/>&mdash; Marcia Weider"
qotD[2450] = "No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others. <br/>&mdash; Tammy Bruce"
qotD[2451] = "It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[2452] = "Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. <br/>&mdash; Mortimer Alder"
qotD[2453] = "I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. <br/>&mdash; Lisa Alther"
qotD[2454] = "Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it. <br/>&mdash; Mikhail A. Bakunin"
qotD[2455] = "The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. <br/>&mdash; Clarence S. Darrow"
qotD[2456] = "A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself. <br/>&mdash; Fyodor Dostoyevsky"
qotD[2457] = "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2458] = "We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Flexner"
qotD[2459] = "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. <br/>&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi"
qotD[2460] = "Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[2461] = "Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. <br/>&mdash; Warren Buffett"
qotD[2462] = "I am for a government rigorously frugal and simple. Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we should soon want bread. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2463] = "Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[2464] = "The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property. <br/>&mdash; William O. Douglas"
qotD[2465] = "The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste. <br/>&mdash; M. W. Harrison"
qotD[2466] = "What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves. <br/>&mdash; Joel Miller"
qotD[2467] = "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2468] = "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[2469] = "Opinion is not religion, not even right opinion. <br/>&mdash; John Wesley"
qotD[2470] = "I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man. <br/>&mdash; Themistocles"
qotD[2471] = "Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. <br/>&mdash; Jean Jacques Rousseau"
qotD[2472] = "A government is the only vessel known to leak from the top. <br/>&mdash; James Reston"
qotD[2473] = "Fools see men's clothes; wise men see men's spirits. <br/>&mdash; Jewish Proverb"
qotD[2474] = "Don't bother just to be better than your counterparts or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. <br/>&mdash; William Faulkner"
qotD[2475] = "How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true! <br/>&mdash; Logan Pearsall Smith"
qotD[2476] = "Every man has a right to be poor. <br/>&mdash; Richard Jefferies"
qotD[2477] = "For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. <br/>&mdash; Mary Kay Ash"
qotD[2478] = "Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[2479] = "For some people, money is a foreign film without subtitles. <br/>&mdash; Nicolas Cage"
qotD[2480] = "What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? <br/>&mdash; Jesus of Nazareth"
qotD[2481] = "Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2482] = "America is too big, too diverse, and too free to be run by bureaucrats sitting in office buildings in one city. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[2483] = "You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and liberty. <br/>&mdash; Henrik Ibsen"
qotD[2384] = "To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise. <br/>&mdash; Tokugawa Ieyasu"
qotD[2485] = "Many of our cares are but morbid ways of looking at our privileges. <br/>&mdash; Walter Scott"
qotD[2486] = "Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. <br/>&mdash; Albert Edward Wiggin"
qotD[2487] = "God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. <br/>&mdash; Rebecca West"
qotD[2488] = "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. <br/>&mdash; William Allen White"
qotD[2489] = "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. <br/>&mdash; Colin Wilson"
qotD[2490] = "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. <br/>&mdash; Virginia Woolf"
qotD[2491] = "The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting, but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny. <br/>&mdash; Walter E. Williams"
qotD[2492] = "It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. <br/>&mdash; Rev. Henry Ward Beecher"
qotD[2493] = "You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[2494] = "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. <br/>&mdash; Michael Jordan"
qotD[2495] = "Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2496] = "The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out. <br/>&mdash; Tennessee Williams"
qotD[2497] = "Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[2498] = "How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government? <br/>&mdash; Neal Boortz"
qotD[2499] = "Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints, but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities. <br/>&mdash; Alan Bloom"
qotD[2500] = "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. <br/>&mdash; Lucille S. Harper"
qotD[2501] = "They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here? <br/>&mdash; Paul Harvey"
qotD[2502] = "The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2503] = "There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream. <br/>&mdash; Archibald Macleish"
qotD[2504] = "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them. <br/>&mdash; George Mason"
qotD[2505] = "If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[2506] = "The simplest things give me ideas. <br/>&mdash; Joan Miro"
qotD[2507] = "Depend on yourself. Believe in yourself. Don't depend on government. <br/>&mdash; Sean Hannity"
qotD[2508] = "Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible. <br/>&mdash; Cherie-Carter Scotts"
qotD[2509] = "Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2510] = "Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take. <br/>&mdash; Italian Proverb"
qotD[2511] = "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[2512] = "Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reasons and not just to mingle with the right people. Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[2513] = "Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2514] = "Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[2515] = "Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society. <br/>&mdash; Felix Frankfurter"
qotD[2516] = "To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. <br/>&mdash; Confucius"
qotD[2517] = "The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word 'tomorrow' the most. <br/>&mdash; Robert Kiyosaki"
qotD[2518] = "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[2519] = "People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. <br/>&mdash; Aesop"
qotD[2520] = "We may define therapy as a search for value. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Maslow"
qotD[2521] = "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[2522] = "I have learnt to seek my happiness in limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. <br/>&mdash; John Stuart Mill"
qotD[2523] = "All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. <br/>&mdash; Spike Milligan"
qotD[2524] = "If God is for us, who can be against us? <br/>&mdash; Bible, Romans 8:31"
qotD[2525] = "I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum. <br/>&mdash; John Elway"
qotD[2526] = "We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2527] = "When deeds speak, words are nothing. <br/>&mdash; Central African Proverb"
qotD[2528] = "Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. <br/>&mdash; Fran&ccedil;ois de la Rochefoucauld"
qotD[2529] = "The greatest achievements were, at first and for a time, dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn. <br/>&mdash; James Allen"
qotD[2530] = "The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. <br/>&mdash; Tryon Edwards"
qotD[2531] = "If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.<br/>&mdash; David Rockefeller"
qotD[2532] = "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[2533] = "If you do not hope, you will not find out what is beyond your hopes. <br/>&mdash; St. Clement"
qotD[2534] = "The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. <br/>&mdash; Ben Stein"
qotD[2535] = "Reagan roots are not anti-Communism and low taxes and the Laffer Curve and all the other things that Reagan was dealing with at the time. Reagan roots are the roots of our founding. And the primary leg on that stool is individual liberty. This is a nation founded on the concept that we are individuals. We are not a collective. We are individuals. And that we do our best when we are working in our own self interest, not selfishness, but our own self interest, improving our lives, our families' lives; improves everybody's lives around ours in our communities, cities, towns, the nation at large. Individual liberty will never go out of style because, as our founders correctly noted, it is part of our creation. It's what sets this country apart from every other collection of human beings in the history of the world. We have acknowledged that our creation comes from God, not from government, that our freedom is a natural yearning of our creation. And that is the natural yearning of our spirit, to be free, all humanity, all human beings. And as such, liberty will never go out of style. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2536] = "Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2537] = "The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. <br/>&mdash; Albert Camus"
qotD[2538] = "To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind&mdash;this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. <br/>&mdash; Henry Van Dyke"
qotD[2539] = "A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement. <br/>&mdash; James H. Douglas"
qotD[2540] = "People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem. <br/>&mdash; Mitt Romney"
qotD[2541] = "Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school. <br/>&mdash; Gwen Moore"
qotD[2542] = "The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements. <br/>&mdash; John Marshall Harlan"
qotD[2543] = "Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. <br/>&mdash; Larry Elder" 
qotD[2544] = "It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[2545] = "As I grew up, my mom and dad taught me the values that attracted them to this country&mdash;and they instilled in me an immigrant's wonder at the greatness of America. As a child, I remember going to the grocery store with my dad. Growing up in India, he had seen extreme poverty. And as we walked through the aisles, looking at the endless variety on the shelves, he would tell me: &quot;Bobby, Americans can do anything.&quot; I still believe that to this day. <br/>&mdash; Bobby Jindal"
qotD[2546] = "It's time for entrepreneurs to go ahead and be entrepreneurial. It's time for people to start accessing the opportunities that still do exist in this country. It is the people who have always made this country work who will make it work, because it's the people who will eventually turn this tide. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2547] = "Government is not reason, nor eloquence. It is force. And like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. <br/>&mdash; George Washington"
qotD[2548] = "I heartily endorse the motto, &quot;That government is best which governs least&quot;; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[2549] = "Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt. <br/>&mdash; Herbert Hoover"
qotD[2550] = "Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. <br/>&mdash; James Baldwin"
qotD[2551] = "Liberals hate America, they hate &quot;flag-wavers,&quot; they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam (post 9/11). Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[2552] = "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2553] = "Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible. <br/>&mdash; Uma Thurman"
qotD[2554] = "It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. <br/>&mdash; Robert H. Jackson"
qotD[2555] = "One's vision first and foremost rests on values. Values because values are the conscience of a society. Values that must be lived; not just preached. Children learn values by watching their parents in their homes. Values which are then reinforced in their churches and in their places of worship, in the schools and in the communities in which they live. Values fuel families, families that are bound together by love and commitment. Families that then have the strength to withstand the assaults of contemporary life, to resist the images of violence and vulgarity that flood into our lives every day. Families that come together as communities to defeat the scourge of drugs and crime and incivility that threaten us. <br/>&mdash; Colin Powell"
qotD[2556] = "You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad&mdash;in fact, to do anything it wants. <br/>&mdash; Harry Browne"
qotD[2557] = "A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[2558] = "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? <br/>&mdash; Jean Cocteau"
qotD[2559] = "Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. <br/>&mdash; Bellamy Brooks"
qotD[2560] = "Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise. <br/>&mdash; Mignon McLaughlin"
qotD[2561] = "There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck. <br/>&mdash; Euripides"
qotD[2562] = "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. <br/>&mdash; Douglas Adams, &quot;The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy&quot;"
qotD[2563] = "Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. <br/>&mdash; Wilfred Grenfell"
qotD[2564] = "Life is too complicated not to be orderly. <br/>&mdash; Martha Stewart"
qotD[2565] = "If you can't dress for success, at least dress for trying. <br/>&mdash; Lynne Alpern"
qotD[2566] = "An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact, is dead. <br/>&mdash; Nancy Mitford"
qotD[2567] = "He that would have fruit must climb the tree. <br/>&mdash; English Proverb"
qotD[2568] = "God made the world round so we could never see too far down the road. <br/>&mdash; Isak Dinesen"
qotD[2569] = "When my enemies stop hissing, I know I'm slipping. <br/>&mdash; Maria Callas"
qotD[2570] = "A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain. <br/>&mdash; Mildred Witte Struven"
qotD[2571] = "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't. <br/>&mdash; Erica Jong"
qotD[2572] = "Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. <br/>&mdash; Zelda Fitzgerald"
qotD[2573] = "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[2574] = "The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore, we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2575] = "Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. <br/>&mdash; Dave Barry"
qotD[2576] = "I use to think that getting old was about vanity&mdash;but actually it's about losing people you love. <br/>&mdash; Joyce Carol Oates"
qotD[2577] = "There is no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow. <br/>&mdash; Edith Wharton"
qotD[2578] = "Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. <br/>&mdash; Jeanette Winterson"
qotD[2579] = "All happiness is a work of art; the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it. <br/>&mdash; Marguerite Yourcenar"
qotD[2580] = "Grief is a circular staircase. <br/>&mdash; Linda Pastan"
qotD[2581] = "Newspapers...serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2582] = "Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Leacock"
qotD[2583] = "Normal worrying is is a natural safeguard, and we need it. The tigers out there are real, just as plentiful as ever, and better armed than they used to be. <br/>&mdash; Barbara Holland"
qotD[2584] = "In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known&mdash;that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. <br/>&mdash; Norman O. Brown"
qotD[2585] = "It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing&mdash;that's the Lord's test. <br/>&mdash; Mahalia Jackson"
qotD[2586] = "Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Thatcher"
qotD[2587] = "Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them. <br/>&mdash; Louisa May Alcott"
qotD[2588] = "If you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Clark"
qotD[2589] = "The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. <br/>&mdash; Oliver Wendell Holmes"
qotD[2590] = "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. <br/>&mdash; Donald Trump"
qotD[2591] = "The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[2592] = "Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about &quot;character issues.&quot; Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2593] = "Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. <br/>&mdash; Sydney Smith"
qotD[2594] = "Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2595] = "Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Hawking"
qotD[2596] = "My kind of loyalty was to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2597] = "The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. <br/>&mdash; Sir Henry Taylor"
qotD[2598] = "He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[2599] = "There is little success where there is little laughter. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[2600] = "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. <br/>&mdash; Maureen Dowd"
qotD[2601] = "Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. <br/>&mdash; e. e. cummings"
qotD[2602] = "The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. <br/>&mdash; Jonas Salk"
qotD[2603] = "When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a hand full of mud, either. <br/>&mdash; Leo Burnett"
qotD[2604] = "It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. <br/>&mdash; C. S. Lewis"
qotD[2605] = "The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed. <br/>&mdash; Martina Navratilova"
qotD[2606] = "A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs. <br/>&mdash; Paul Newman"
qotD[2607] = "Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something. <br/>&mdash; Andrew Carnegie"
qotD[2608] = "Every artist was first an amateur. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2609] = "Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2610] = "A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[2611] = "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. <br/>&mdash; Napoleon Bonaparte"
qotD[2612] = "Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. <br/>&mdash; John Galsworthy"
qotD[2613] = "In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. <br/>&mdash; Christopher Morley"
qotD[2614] = "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. <br/>&mdash; George Bernard Shaw"
qotD[2615] = "The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. <br/>&mdash; Henry Ford"
qotD[2616] = "If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. <br/>&mdash; Ogden Nash"
qotD[2617] = "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there. <br/>&mdash; Clare Boothe Luce"
qotD[2618] = "God will listen to you whatever cloak you wear. <br/>&mdash; Spanish Proverb"
qotD[2619] = "There is no wealth but life. <br/>&mdash; John Ruskin"
qotD[2620] = "We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. <br/>&mdash; Tom Robbins"
qotD[2621] = "If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. <br/>&mdash; Rainer Maria Rilke"
qotD[2622] = "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. <br/>&mdash; Anne Bradstreet"
qotD[2623] = "Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. <br/>&mdash; Mother Teresa"
qotD[2624] = "The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[2625] = "We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice, or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Jowett"
qotD[2626] = "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. <br/>&mdash; Jane Austen"
qotD[2627] = "Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. <br/>&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi"
qotD[2628] = "If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. <br/>&mdash; Abraham Lincoln"
qotD[2629] = "Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. <br/>&mdash; Barry Goldwater" 
qotD[2630] = "A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. <br/>&mdash; Edward R. Murrow"
qotD[2631] = "It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government. But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer. Neither is resignation. Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin, but a punishment. <br/>&mdash; Elie Wiesel"
qotD[2632] = "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[2633] = "The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can. <br/>&mdash; John Gardner"
qotD[2634] = "For years, governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford. <br/>&mdash; Paul Martin"
qotD[2635] = "Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln? <br/>&mdash; Robert Coles"
qotD[2636] = "I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2637] = "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[2638] = "The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. <br/>&mdash; Faye Wattleton"
qotD[2639] = "We don't have to reinvent who we are. We just need the courage to once again be who we were. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2640] = "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. <br/>&mdash; John Quincy Adams"
qotD[2641] = "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Nader"
qotD[2642] = "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. <br/>&mdash; Robert Louis Stevenson"
qotD[2643] = "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. <br/>&mdash; Susan B. Anthony"
qotD[2644] = "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. <br/>&mdash; Walter Lippman"
qotD[2645] = "Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant. <br/>&mdash; Yiddish Proverb"
qotD[2646] = "Democrats have one responsibility: follow the Constitution. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2647] = "How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.<br/>&mdash; Petrarch"
qotD[2648] = "It's the set of the sails, not the swiftness of the gait, which determines where we shall go.<br/>&mdash; Ruth H. Noordhoff"
qotD[2649] = "Forty is the old age of youth, while fifty is the youth of old age. <br/>&mdash; Victor Hugo"
qotD[2650] = "Talk is cheap&mdash;except when Congress does it. <br/>&mdash; Cullen Hightower"
qotD[2651] = "Nothing recedes like success. <br/>&mdash; Walter Winchell"
qotD[2652] = "Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last. <br/>&mdash; Hamilton Holt"
qotD[2653] = "Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2654] = "No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won. <br/>&mdash; Jim Valvano"
qotD[2655] = "No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. <br/>&mdash; Anna Pavlova"
qotD[2656] = "No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2657] = "The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. <br/>&mdash; Bill Graham"
qotD[2658] = "If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. <br/>&mdash; Ed Howe"
qotD[2659] = "Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. <br/>&mdash; Japanese Proverb"
qotD[2660] = "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. <br/>&mdash; Alan Saporta"
qotD[2661] = "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished. <br/>&mdash; Og Mandingo"
qotD[2662] = "Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2663] = "Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. <br/>&mdash; William A. Ward"
qotD[2664] = "In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. <br/>&mdash; Blaise Pascal"
qotD[2665] = "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[2666] = "Your mentors in life are important, so choose them wisely. <br/>&mdash; Robert Kiyosaki"
qotD[2667] = "The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. <br/>&mdash; John D. Rockefeller"
qotD[2668] = "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. <br/>&mdash; Elizabeth Kubler Ross"
qotD[2669] = "When all else fails, read the instructions. <br/>&mdash; Agnes Allen"
qotD[2670] = "The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2671] = "What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2672] = "I learned the value of hard work by working hard. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Mead"
qotD[2673] = "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. <br/>&mdash; Aldous Huxley"
qotD[2674] = "If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. <br/>&mdash; Denis Waitley"
qotD[2675] = "In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. <br/>&mdash; Friedrich Schlegel"
qotD[2676] = "Food is our common ground, a universal experience. <br/>&mdash; James Beard"
qotD[2677] = "Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to paymore than the law demands. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2678] = "You're born here, you take it for granted, you accept that America is what it is. To the extent that you have traveled, you do see the differences, the plus side differences in America. But, if you haven't traveled much around the world, you assume everything is not nearly as bad around the world as it is. You don't really have the full-fledged appreciation, and if you're not taught much history, then you really don't ask, &quot;Gosh, how did this happen? Europe, Asia&mdash;been around thousands of years. They should be light years ahead of us in every measure. But they're not. Why?&quot; Well, John Adams said, paraphrasing, &quot;We've written a document here that's for a moral and religious people.&quot; We don't have a document that can handle people who aren't. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2679] = "Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. <br/>&mdash; Art Buchwald"
qotD[2680] = "Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. <br/>&mdash; Adam Smith"
qotD[2681] = "Live simply, so others may simply live. <br/>&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi"
qotD[2682] = "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. <br/>&mdash; Ayn Rand"
qotD[2683] = "If you're going through hell, keep going. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2684] = "Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2685] = "In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. <br/>&mdash; Norman Mailer"
qotD[2686] = "American votes should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington. Remember, politicians get votes by promising everything to everyone, always at the expense of some other invisible taxpayers. ...The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard. <br/>&mdash; Ron Paul"
qotD[2687] = "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. <br/>&mdash; Bob Dylan"
qotD[2688] = "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. <br/>&mdash; Gen. George S. Patton, Jr."
qotD[2689] = "Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. <br/>&mdash; Washington Irving"
qotD[2690] = "Malice is only another name for mediocrity. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Kavanagh"
qotD[2691] = "The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. <br/>&mdash; Isaac Asimov"
qotD[2692] = "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of ANY nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Adrian Rogers"
qotD[2693] = "Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2694] = "I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying. <br/>&mdash; Greg LeMond"
qotD[2695] = "He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. <br/>&mdash; Yiddish Proverb"
qotD[2696] = "We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. <br/>&mdash; John F. Kennedy"
qotD[2697] = "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do something I can do. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[2698] = "The whole principle [of censorship] is wrong. It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak. <br/>&mdash; Robert A. Heinlein"
qotD[2699] = "Money grows on the tree of persistence. <br/>&mdash; Japanese Proverb"
qotD[2700] = "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. <br/>&mdash; Douglas Everett"
qotD[2701] = "Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2702] = "I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. <br/>&mdash; Edward Gibbon"
qotD[2703] = "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2704] = "Beware the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Paine"
qotD[2621] = "The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings. <br/>&mdash; Halle Berry"
qotD[2622] = "Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[2623] = "We are the richest society in history, and that's why dreams matter. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[2624] = "No man is rich enough to buy back his past. <br/>&mdash; Oscar Wilde"
qotD[2625] = "The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2626] = "Genius ain't nothing more than elegant common sense. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[2627] = "Never promise a poor person, and never owe a rich one. <br/>&mdash; Brazilian Proverb"
qotD[2628] = "Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. <br/>&mdash; Felix Frankfurter"
qotD[2629] = "When money represents many things, not to love it would be to love nearly nothing. To forget true needs can be only a feeble moderation; but to know the value of money and to sacrifice it always, maybe to duty, maybe even to delicacy&mdash;that is real virtue. <br/>&mdash; Etiene Pivert de Senancour"
qotD[2630] = "He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, it creates more wants than it supplies. <br/>&mdash; William Wirt"
qotD[2631] = "Without personal responsibility, there cannot be freedom. It is just that simple. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[2632] = "Happiness is how, not what: a talent, not an object. <br/>&mdash; Herman Hesse"
qotD[2633] = "All the great things are simple, and many can be expresed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2634] = "Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he bleongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority. <br/>&mdash; Arthur Schopenhauer"
qotD[2635] = "Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[2636] = "Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. <br/>&mdash; Charles H. Spurgeon"
qotD[2637] = "Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating. <br/>&mdash; Icelandic Proverb"
qotD[2638] = "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. <br/>&mdash; Frederick Douglass"
qotD[2639] = "Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[2640] = "The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitudes of life. <br/>&mdash; Eustace Budgell"
qotD[2641] = "It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2642] = "Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2643] = "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. <br/>&mdash; Henry Miller"
qotD[2644] = "I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religions and guns when those peopel aren't listening. We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco. <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin"
qotD[2645] = "The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax. <br/>&mdash; Albert Einstein"
qotD[2646] = "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. <br/>&mdash; Edward Everett Hale"
qotD[2647] = "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. ...I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2648] = "The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both. ...Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ...We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. <br/>&mdash; Milton Friedman"
qotD[2639] = "It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication, and a government beaureaucracy to administer it. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2650] = "I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular. <br/>&mdash; E. B. White"
qotD[2651] = "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2652] = "Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2653] = "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise. <br/>&mdash; Robert Fritz"
qotD[2654] = "You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right. <br/>&mdash; Lyndon B. Johnson"
qotD[2655] = "Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. <br/>&mdash; Vince Lombardi"
qotD[2656] = "Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. <br/>&mdash; Victor Borge"
qotD[2657] = "To me, conservatism IS America. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2658] = "I think I speak for all Americans who think newspaper editors who print the details of top-secret, anti-terrorist intelligence gathering programs on Page One in wartime should be executed for treason. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[2659] = "There are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind? <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[2660] = "A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. <br/>&mdash; Homer"
qotD[2661] = "Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. <br/>&mdash; Czech Proverb"
qotD[2662] = "I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. <br/>&mdash; Thomas A. Edison"
qotD[2663] = "Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. <br/>&mdash; Truman Capote"
qotD[2664] = "Don't let negative people or negative responses deter you. Learn from life's experiences. <br/>&mdash; Mark Levin"
qotD[2665] = "The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. <br/>&mdash; Felix Frankfurter"
qotD[2666] = "Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them... The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. <br/>&mdash; Frederick Douglass"
qotD[2667] = "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. <br/>&mdash; Fyodor Dostoevsky"
qotD[2668] = "As long as they're not handcuffed by mission planning from Washington and cuts in their budgets and things that they need, the US military can defeat whoever they're pitted against. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2669] = "Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. <br/>&mdash; Carl Sandburg"
qotD[2670] = "One devoid of sympathy is not a man, but a monster. <br/>&mdash; Jewish Proverb"
qotD[2671] = "No matter how much money they have, liberals will be damned if they're giving up the poor's mantle of angry self-righteousness. This is especially true if their wealth came by inheritance, marriage, or the taxpayer, the preferred sources of income for Liberalus Americanus. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[2672] = "The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. <br/>&mdash; Milton Friedman"
qotD[2673] = "Politics are not the high class, marvelous thing that lots of you picture. Our whole government workings are crammed with &quot;baloney.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[2674] = "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2675] = "Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[2676] = "One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. <br/>&mdash; Epictetus"
qotD[2677] = "Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments? <br/>&mdash; Charles Lamb"
qotD[2678] = "There is no real wealth but the labor of man. <br/>&mdash; Percy Bysshe Shelley"
qotD[2679] = "I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. <br/>&mdash; Wilson Mizner"
qotD[2680] = "No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. <br/>&mdash; Edmund Burke"
qotD[2681] = "Most things about economics are simple, the problem is to recognize simplicity when you see it! <br/>&mdash; Harry Johnson"
qotD[2682] = "If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask! <br/>&mdash; W. Clement Stone"
qotD[2683] = "America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2684] = "Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. <br/>&mdash; French Proverb"
qotD[2685] = "Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in Senate. <br/>&mdash; Orson Welles"
qotD[2686] = "Never spend money before you have it. The rule which I wish to see you governed by through your whole life, of never buying anything which you have not the money in your pocket to pay for. Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2687] = "Work delivers us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and want. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[2688] = "I love to go to Washington&mdash;if only to be near my money. <br/>&mdash; Bob Hope"
qotD[2689] = "Gratitude, like milk, turns sour if its container is not absolutely clean. <br/>&mdash; Remy de Gourmont"
qotD[2690] = "The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2691] = "There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. <br/>&mdash; Jean de La Bruy&egrave;re"
qotD[2692] = "I am a Theodore Roosevelt Republican. I believe in free markets within a regulatory environment. So, I like having McDonald's and Wendy's compete, but I want the water to be drinkable and the hamburger to be beef. And I'm prepared to sanction the government to ensure that. <br/>&mdash; Newt Gingrich"
qotD[2693] = "A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you. <br/>&mdash; Jay Leno"
qotD[2694] = "Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. <br/>&mdash; Mel Brooks"
qotD[2695] = "Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.<br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2696] = "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2697] = "All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.<br/>&mdash; James Russell Lowell"
qotD[2698] = "He who has health has hope, and he who has hope, has everything. <br/>&mdash; Arabian Proverb"
qotD[2699] = "Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. <br/>&mdash; Sir Francis Bacon"
qotD[2700] = "There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2701] = "You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. <br/>&mdash; Vicomte de Chateaubriand"
qotD[2702] = "It may be that those who do most, dream most. <br/>&mdash; Stephen Leacock"
qotD[2703] = "Without frugality, none can be rich, and with it, very few would be poor. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Johnson"
qotD[2704] = "Dreams, which tease the mind with flying shades, do not come by divine command from ethereal sanctuaries, but each makes his own. <br/>&mdash; Voltaire"
qotD[2705] = "He who can't get bacon must be content with cabbage. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[2706] = "Wisdom is like turtle soup in that not everyone can get it. <br/>&mdash; Alexei Tolstoy"
qotD[2707] = "In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Story"
qotD[2708] = "There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure, it is an experience of great social import. Even as the transced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. <br/>&mdash; Christopher Morley"
qotD[2709] = "Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite. <br/>&mdash; Auguste Escoffier"
qotD[2710] = "Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart&mdash;and only the pure in heart can make good soup. <br/>&mdash; Ludwig van Beethoven"
qotD[2711] = "Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. <br/>&mdash; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr."
qotD[2712] = "Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. <br/>&mdash; Kin Hubbard"
qotD[2713] = "A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. <br/>&mdash; Dorothy Parker"
qotD[2714] = "If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. <br/>&mdash; Jimmy Buffett"
qotD[2715] = "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. <br/>&mdash; W. H. Auden"
qotD[2716] = "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2717] = "Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving. <br/>&mdash; O. Henry"
qotD[2718] = "Wisdom outweighs any wealth. <br/>&mdash; Sophocles"
qotD[2719] = "The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[2720] = "Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. <br/>&mdash; Henrik Ibsen"
qotD[2721] = "If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. <br/>&mdash; Ray Kroc"
qotD[2722] = "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome. <br/>&mdash; William James"
qotD[2723] = "A great man is always willing to be little. While he sis on the cushion of advantages he goes to sleep. When he is pushed and disappointed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something. He has been put on his wits, but he has gained facts; he has learned his ignorance, he is cured of the insanity of conceit, has got moderation and real skill. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2724] = "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2725] = "Putting preposterously overrated presidents like John F. Kennedy or FDR in the same category as Reagan or Washington is like a teenage girl ranking the Jonas Brothers with the Rolling Stones and the Beatles as the three greatest bands of all time. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[2726] = "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2727] = "Give thanks we live in America, land of the free, home of the brave, where the media's elite journalists can leak top-secret information with impunity, win Pulitzer Prizes, cash in on lucrative book deals, routinely insult their readership and viewership, broadcast enemy propaganda, turn a blind eye to the victims of jihad, and cast themselves as oppressed victims on six-figure salaries. <br/>&mdash; Michelle Malkin"
qotD[2728] = "When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. <br/>&mdash; Pema Chodron"
qotD[2729] = "If I can be an advocate of individualist solutions to our society's problems that are affirmative solutions, that's to me what conservatism means. <br/>&mdash; Tom Selleck"
qotD[2730] = "Where are there are two desires in a man's heart, he has no choice between the two, but must obey the strongest, there being no such as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2731] = "How many observe Christ's birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2732] = "Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. <br/>&mdash; Sophocles"
qotD[2733] = "All great peoples are conservative. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Carlyle"
qotD[2734] = "A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. <br/>&mdash; Robert A. Heinlein"
qotD[2735] = "I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. <br/>&mdash; Princess Diana of Wales"
qotD[2736] = "The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. <br/>&mdash; Dresden James"
qotD[2736] = "When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2737] = "The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. An &quot;effective&quot; government that operates outside its constitutional limitations is a dangerous government. <br/>&mdash; Mark Levin"
qotD[2738] = "Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers&mdash;not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve. <br/>&mdash; Bible, 1 Peter 5:2"
qotD[2739] = "When you cease to dream, you cease to live. <br/>&mdash; Malcolm Forbes"
qotD[2740] = "A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. <br/>&mdash; Theodore Roosevelt"
qotD[2741] = "He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. <br/>&mdash; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
qotD[2742] = "Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly. <br/>&mdash; Bible, Proverbs 17:12"
qotD[2743] = "Let not your heart be troubled. <br/>&mdash; Sean Hannity"
qotD[2744] = "It was predator lenders who tried to talk Americans into thinking that it was smart to buy a $300,000 house if we could only afford a $100,000 house. There was deception, and there was greed, and there was corruption. Joe Six Pack, hockey moms across the nation, we need to band together and say <em>never again.</em> <br/>&mdash; Sarah Palin" 
qotD[2745] = "Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, money takes wings, those who cheer you today may curse you tomorrow. The only thing that endures is character. <br/>&mdash; Horace Greeley"
qotD[2746] = "God helps them that helps themselves. <br/>&mdash; Benjamin Franklin"
qotD[2747] = "Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend. <br/>&mdash; William Shakespeare, &quot;Hamlet,&quot;"
qotD[2748] = "I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. <br/>&mdash; Dean Koontz"
qotD[2749] = "A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[2750] = "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2751] = "Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced&mdash;even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. <br/>&mdash; John Keats"
qotD[2752] = "When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property, they have little or no stake in their communities. <br/>&mdash; Jack Kemp"
qotD[2753] = "We have no right to ask when a sorrow come &quot;Why did this happen to me?&quot; unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way. <br/>&mdash; Philip F. Bernstein"
qotD[2754] = "The most un-American thing you can say is, &quot;You can't say that.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Garrison Keillor"
qotD[2755] = "Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. <br/>&mdash; Learned Hand"
qotD[2756] = "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. <br/>&mdash; Dr. Seuss"
qotD[2757] = "This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. <br/>&mdash; Charles Dickens"
qotD[2758] = "I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. <br/>&mdash; Marilyn Monroe"
qotD[2759] = "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2760] = "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[2761] = "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2762] = "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. <br/>&mdash; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche"
qotD[2763] = "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. <br/>&mdash; Maya Angelou"
qotD[2764] = "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. <br/>&mdash; Robert A. Heinlein"
qotD[2765] = "Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. <br/>&mdash; Pema Chodron"
qotD[2766] = "Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. <br/>&mdash; Bill Gates"
qotD[2767] = "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. <br/>&mdash; Ana&iuml;s Nin"
qotD[2768] = "Thank God&mdash;every morning when you get up&mdash;that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know. <br/>&mdash; Charles Kingsley"
qotD[2769] = "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. <br/>&mdash; Terry Pratchett"
qotD[2770] = "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, &quot;Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?&quot; Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. <br/>&mdash; Marianne Williamson"
qotD[2771] = "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. <br/>&mdash; Eleanor Roosevelt"
qotD[2772] = "When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, is it not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end? <br/>&mdash; Stephenie Meyer"
qotD[2773] = "In times of prosperity, friends will be plenty, in times of adversity, not one in twenty. <br/>&mdash; English Proverb"
qotD[2774] = "What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. <br/>&mdash; Helen Keller"
qotD[2775] = "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. <br/>&mdash; Margaret Mead"
qotD[2776] = "It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. <br/>&mdash; Ralph Waldo Emerson"
qotD[2777] = "Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars, etc... and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish, and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons. <br/>&mdash; Douglas Adams"
qotD[2778] = "Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated. <br/>&mdash; G. K. Chesterton"
qotD[2780] = "It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. <br/>&mdash; Andr&eacute; Gide"
qotD[2781] = "If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. <br/>&mdash; E. B. White"
qotD[2782] = "If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire. <br/>&mdash; Mason Cooley"
qotD[2783] = "Everything you can imagine is real. <br/>&mdash; Pablo Picasso"
qotD[2784] = "When a society loses its memory, it descends inevitably into dementia. <br/>&mdash; Mark Steyn"
qotD[2785] = "The highest form of wisdom is kindness. <br/>&mdash; Talmud"
qotD[2786] = "America isn't arrogant, ladies and general. It's precious. It's a gem. <br/>&mdash; Mark Levin"
qotD[2787] = "Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive. <br/>&mdash; Charles Caleb Colton"
qotD[2788] = "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2789] = "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2790] = "In America, the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. <br/>&mdash; Alexis de Tocqueville"
qotD[2791] = "Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Sowell"
qotD[2792] = "If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. <br/>&mdash; Sun Tzu"
qotD[2793] = "Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2794] = "A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. <br/>&mdash; W. C. Fields"
qotD[2795] = "America is the sum of its parts. America is not one man. America is not a messiah. America is not a president. I don't care who he is: a president is not a pied piper, and America is not a nation of cultists. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2796] = "Every decision we make is based on a risk/reward calculation. If we take away the consequences of risky behavior, we will see more of it. And if there's a money-back guarantee for greedy and stupid decisions, we're in real trouble, because there is only so much money in the bank, but supplies of greed and stupidity are endless. <br/>&mdash; Bill Whittle"
qotD[2797] = "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. <br/>&mdash; Patrick Henry"
qotD[2798] = "The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Adams"
qotD[2799] = "Dig the well before you are thirsty. <br/>&mdash; Chinese Proverb"
qotD[2800] = "Country music doesn't have to be politically correct. We sing about God because we believe in Him. We're not trying to offend anybody, but the evidence we have seen of Him in our small little lives trumps your opinion about whether or not He exists. <br/>&mdash; Jeff Foxworthy"
qotD[2801] = "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the &quot;unalienable Rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.&quot; <br/>&mdash; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
qotD[2802] = "If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts. <br/>&mdash; Sir Winston Churchill"
qotD[2803] = "Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. <br/>&mdash; William Hazlitt"
qotD[2804] = "One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. <br/>&mdash; Josh Billings"
qotD[2805] = "Contrary to all the bloviating jackassery about how conservatives are more dogmatic than liberals we hear these days, the simple fact is that conservatives don't have a settled dogma. How could they when each faction has a different partial philosophy of life? The beauty of the conservative movement. . . is that we all get along with each other pretty well. The chief reason for this is that we all understand and accept the permanence of contradiction and conflict in life. <br/>&mdash; Jonah Goldberg"
qotD[2806] = "If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations. <br/>&mdash; Henry David Thoreau"
qotD[2807] = "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[2808] = "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. <br/>&mdash; P. J. O'Rourke"
qotD[2809] = "In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. <br/>&mdash; Bible, John 1:4-5"
qotD[2810] = "I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses. <br/>&mdash; Taylor Caldwell"
qotD[2811] = "Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel, and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2812] = "Christmas is a joyous holiday, and joyous people tend not to behave like Torquemada. By my rough calculation, 99.87 percent of Christians who say &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; to people who aren't Christian do so because they're trying to be nice. And, by my equally rough calculation, 97.93 percent of people who take real offense when they're on the receiving end of such Yuletide wishes are trying to be a pain in the&mdash;uh, well, they're trying to be a pain. <br/>&mdash; Jonah Goldberg"
qotD[2813] = "Why do fringe liberals, Muslim terrorists, European socialists, and communists all hate Christianity? What is the common thread that joins them? They desire to control others, and they despise the fact Christianity promotes freedom based on personal responsibility. <br/>&mdash; Donald R. May"
qotD[2814] = "This people, small as it is, surrounded as it is by enemies, has decided to live. And if we have to pay the price for living, we have to pay it. This is not a people that can give in. <br/>&mdash; Golda Meir"
qotD[2815] = "I have this belief that, all things being equal, the vast majority of people are capable of far more than they think they are. <br/>&mdash; Rush Limbaugh"
qotD[2816] = "The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. <br/>&mdash; Will Rogers"
qotD[2817] = "Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. <br/>&mdash; Richard Harris"
qotD[2818] = "Votes are collared under democracy not by talking sense, but by talking nonsense. <br/>&mdash; H. L. Mencken"
qotD[2819] = "Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Adams"
qotD[2820] = "For too long, the world was paralyzed by the argument that terrorism could not be stopped until the grievances of terrorists were addressed. The complicated and heartrending issues that perplex mankind are no excuse for violent, inhumane attacks, nor do they excuse not taking aggressive action against those who deliberately slaughter innocent people. <br/>&mdash; Ronald Reagan"
qotD[2821] = "The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[2822] = "It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[2823] = "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. <br/>&mdash; John Wooden"
qotD[2824] = "The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue, therefore, to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts. <br/>&mdash; John Jay"
qotD[2825] = "Liberals can never abandon the idea that we must soothe savage beasts with appeasement&mdash;whether they're dealing with murderers like Willie Horton or Islamic terrorists. Then the beast eats you. There are only two choices with savages: Fight or run. Democrats always want to run, but they dress it up in meaningless catchphrases like 'diplomacy,' 'detente,' 'engagement,' 'multilateral engagement,' 'multilateral diplomacy,' 'containment' and 'going to the UN.' I guess they figure, &quot;Hey, appeasement worked pretty well with... uh... wait, I know this one... ummm... tip of my tongue...&quot; Democrats like to talk tough, but you can never trap them into fighting. There is always an obscure objection to be raised in this particular instance&mdash;but in some future war they would be intrepid! One simply can't imagine what that war would be. <br/>&mdash; Ann Coulter"
qotD[2826] = "There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. <br/>&mdash; Alexander Hamilton"
qotD[2827] = "No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders. <br/>&mdash; Samuel Adams"
qotD[2828] = "They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. <br/>&mdash; John Adams"
qotD[2829] = "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. <br/>&mdash; Thomas Jefferson"
qotD[2830] = "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. <br/>&mdash; Oprah Winfrey"
qotD[2831] = "No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor. <br/>&mdash; Danish Proverb"
qotD[2832] = "It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. <br/>&mdash; Franklin Delano Roosevelt"
qotD[2833] = "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. <br/>&mdash; Declaration of Independence"
qotD[2834] = "Worry bankrupts the spirit. <br/>&mdash; Berri Clove"
qotD[2835] = "Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared by them, I feel it a duty to express my profound and solemn conviction ... that there never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them. <br/>&mdash; James Madison"
qotD[2836] = "The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. <br/>&mdash; Bertrand Russell"
qotD[2837] = "Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. <br/>&mdash; Joseph Story"
qotD[2838] = "The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. <br/>&mdash; Mark Twain"
qotD[2839] = "Truth is always the strongest argument. <br/>&mdash; Sophocles"
qotD[2840] = "Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly, but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible fo