| Week |
Quote |
Author |
| 1/2/05 |
"That which does not kill you only makes you stronger; but that which hurts you enough will kill you." |
Cory Bogner |
| 1/9/05 |
"Practically every talented person spends all their time trying to hide their talent or freakiness." |
Pete Townshend |
| 1/16/05 |
"You won't have Nixon to kick around any more, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference." |
Richard M. Nixon |
| 1/23/05 |
"There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at four AM. It could be a right number." |
Doug Larson |
| 1/30/05 |
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." |
Winston Churchill |
| 2/6/05 |
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history." |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 2/13/05 |
"A liar must have a good memory." |
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus |
| 2/20/05 |
"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea." |
Thomas Fuller |
| 2/27/05 |
"And to all of those who criticized, condemned, berated, lambasted, denounced, defamed, defiled, or otherwise desecrated The Monkees - go fuck yourselves." |
Micky Dolenz |
| 3/6/05 |
"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom." |
Kahlil Gibran |
| 3/13/05 |
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." |
Kurt Vonnegut |
| 3/20/05 |
"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." |
Winston Churchill |
| 3/27/05 |
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don�t know because we don�t want to know." |
Aldous Huxely |
| 4/3/05 |
"No young man believes he shall ever die." |
William Hazlitt |
| 4/10/05 |
"We had no use for the policy of the Gospels: that if someone slaps you, just turn the other cheek. We had shown that anyone who slapped our cheek would get his head kicked in." |
Nikita Khrushchev |
| 4/17/05 |
"Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful." |
Sean O'Faolain |
| 4/24/05 |
"How rare and wonderful is that flash of moment when we realize we have discovered a friend." |
William Rotsler |
| 5/1/05 |
"It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late." |
Marilyn Moats Kennedy |
| 5/8/05 |
"What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor." |
Bern Williams |
| 5/15/05 |
"Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it." |
Tom Stoppard |
| 5/22/05 |
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it." & "The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." |
George Bernard Shaw |
| 5/29/05 |
"Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst." |
Walter Weckler |
| 6/5/05 |
"Abasht the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is." |
John Milton |
| 6/12/05 |
"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts." |
Charles Maurice de Tallyrand |
| 6/19/05 |
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." |
Adlai E. Stevenson |
| 6/26/05 |
"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere." |
Glenn Turner |
| 7/3/05 |
"The legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions." |
Thomas Jefferson |
| 7/10/05 |
"I believe it is peace for our time." |
Neville Chamberlain |
| 7/17/05 |
"We are all pretending... The important thing is to maintain a straight face." |
Maurice Valency |
| 7/24/05 |
"Everyone had, I think, in some quiet corner of his mind, an ideal home waiting to become a reality." |
Paige Rense |
| 7/31/05 |
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." |
William Shakespeare |
| 8/7/05 |
"I'd like to thank God for fucking up my life and at the same time not existing, quite a special skill." |
Sean Hughes |
| 8/14/05 |
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." |
Oscar Wilde |
| 8/21/05 |
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it." |
Tallulah Bankhead |
| 8/28/05 |
"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface." |
Stephen Sondheim |
| 9/4/05 |
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." |
Ernest Hemingway |
| 9/11/05 |
"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." |
Margaret Atwood |
| 9/18/05 |
"Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts." |
W.H. Auden |
| 9/25/05 |
"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens." |
Abraham Lincoln |
| 10/2/05 |
"Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants." |
Edward Steichen |
| 10/9/05 |
"When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage." |
Bill Balance |
| 10/16/05 |
"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue." |
Alice Duer Miller |
| 10/23/05 |
"My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell." |
Igor Stravinsky |
| 10/30/05 |
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are." |
David C. McCullough |
| 11/6/05 |
"Hell is other people." |
Jean Paul Sartre |
| 11/13/05 |
"If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon." |
Johannes Brahms |
| 11/20/05 |
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone." |
John Ciardi |
| 11/27/05 |
"When a man ceases to believe in God, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything." |
G. K. Chesterton |
| 12/4/05 |
"I like the moment when I break a man's ego." |
Bobby Fischer |
| 12/11/05 |
"I believe that the Jews have made a contribution to the human condition out of all proportion to their numbers: I believe them to be an immense people. Not only have they supplied the world with two leaders of the stature of Jesus Christ and Karl Marx, but they have even indulged in the luxury of following neither one nor the other." |
Peter Ustinov |
| 12/18/05 |
"We do not remember days, we remember moments." |
Cesare Pavese |
| 12/25/05 |
"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." |
John Steinbeck |
