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31 Jan 2012

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams


30 Jan 2012

I sent the club a wire stating, "Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx


29 Jan 2012

The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
-- Bender Unit 22


28 Jan 2012

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)


27 Jan 2012

Jazz is not dead...it just smells funny.
-- Frank Zappa


26 Jan 2012

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.
-- Douglas Adams (on why "42" is The Answer...)


25 Jan 2012

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.
-- William of Occam


24 Jan 2012

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
-- George Orwell


23 Jan 2012

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
-- Albert Einstein


22 Jan 2012

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
-- David Letterman


21 Jan 2012

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
-- Emo Philips


20 Jan 2012

One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
-- Stephen Hawking (Black Holes & Baby Universes)


19 Jan 2012

People who think of videos as an art form are probably the same people who think Cabbage Patch Dolls are a revolutionary form of soft sculpture.
-- Frank Zappa


18 Jan 2012

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
-- Albert Einstein


17 Jan 2012

There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.
-- Jack Handey


16 Jan 2012

As I got up in front of them, I felt an intoxication that had nothing to do with alcohol. It was the intoxication of being a public spectacle.
-- Homer J. Simpson


15 Jan 2012

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith


14 Jan 2012

I hope I didn't brain my damage.
-- Homer J. Simpson


13 Jan 2012

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
-- Bertrand Russell


12 Jan 2012

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain


11 Jan 2012

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
-- Vannevar Bush


10 Jan 2012

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
-- Alfred E. Newman


09 Jan 2012

Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.
-- Martin Mull


08 Jan 2012

Me fail English? That's unpossible.
-- Ralph Wiggum


07 Jan 2012

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.
-- Jack Handey


06 Jan 2012

When I was a child, the other children in my neighborhood would taunt me, calling me "noodle-head" or "neo-Calvinist" So I would run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap tight and pull me back.
-- Emo Philips


05 Jan 2012

It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you.
-- Jack Handey


04 Jan 2012

Mmmm, forbidden donut.
-- Homer J. Simpson


03 Jan 2012

My religion is to do good.
-- Thomas Paine


02 Jan 2012

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
-- James Thurber


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