Friday, March 28, 2025

Quote of the Day (Patricia Marx, Imagining a New Voice-Mail Message for the U.S. Government)

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“You have reached the U.S. government. We are currently unable to answer your call, because everyone has been fired except Bob. If you would...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Quote of the Day (Baseball’s Casey Stengel, on How Leo Durocher Couldn’t Slug With Fists or Bat)

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“That fresh boob is lucky I didn’t knock out his few brains with that bat, but nothing like that was necessary. He can’t hit any harder with...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Movie Quote of the Day (‘The Man Who Would Be King,’ on What a Whiff of Power Can Do)

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[ Two soldiers, dismissed from Her Majesty’s service in India, have traveled to remote Kafiristan, where they conquer opposition and set the...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Quote of the Day (Victor Hugo, on the Upper and Lower Classes)

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“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”—French novelist-poet Victor Hugo (1802-1885), Le...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Quote of the Day (Desiderius Erasmus, on the ‘Incredible Delight’ Fools Take in Statements)

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“A remarkable thing happens in the experience of my fools: from them not only true things, but even sharp reproaches, will be listened to; s...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Spiritual Quote of the Day (Christina Rossetti, on Hope Awakening in Mid-Lent)

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“At night wake hope. Poor soul, in such sore need Of wakening and of girding up anew, Hast thou that hope which fainting doth pursue? No sai...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

Quote of the Day (Tori Amos, on Why ‘Being a Librarian is a Fantasy of Mine’)

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  “Being a librarian is a fantasy of mine. In my album Tales of a Librarian , I'm dressed in different imagined librarian costumes, and ...