Last 30 Quotes of the Day


26 Sep 2026

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
-- Douglas Adams


25 Sep 2026

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.
-- Mark Twain


24 Sep 2026

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus


23 Sep 2026

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.
-- Jack Handey


22 Sep 2026

The human mind is a dangerous plaything, boys. When it's used for evil, watch out! But when it's used for good, then things are much nicer.
-- The Tick


21 Sep 2026

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.
-- Ezekiel 23:20


20 Sep 2026

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.
-- David Letterman


19 Sep 2026

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
-- H.L. Mencken


18 Sep 2026

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
-- Johnny Carson


17 Sep 2026

In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan


16 Sep 2026

That chill, my young non-friend, is probably the cold breath of the reaper breathing down your neck.
-- Captain Hazel 'Hank' Murphy


15 Sep 2026

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
-- Mark Twain


14 Sep 2026

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone


13 Sep 2026

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll


12 Sep 2026

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
-- George Carlin


11 Sep 2026

We are number one! All others are number two, or lower.
-- The Sphinx


10 Sep 2026

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three -- and paradise is when you have none.
-- Doug Larson


09 Sep 2026

I have been Michael's number two guy for about five years, and we make a great team. Why, we're like one of those classic, famous teams. He's like Mozart and I'm like Mozart's friend. No, I'm like Butch Cassidy, and Michael is like Mozart. You try and hurt Mozart, you're gonna get a bullet in your head, courtesy of Butch Cassidy.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III


08 Sep 2026

This so-called "new religion" is nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants, designed to take away the money of fools. Let us say the Lord's Prayer 40 times, but first, let's pass the collection plate!
-- Reverend Timothy Lovejoy


07 Sep 2026

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


06 Sep 2026

It says he made us all to be just like him. So if we're dumb, then god is dumb, and maybe even a little ugly on the side.
-- Frank Zappa


05 Sep 2026

Mmmm, purple.
-- Homer J. Simpson


04 Sep 2026

In a mad world only the mad are sane.
-- Akira Kurosawa


03 Sep 2026

In Washington, only two kinds of religion are tolerated: vague beliefs strongly affirmed and strong beliefs vaguely expressed.
-- Eugene McCarthy


02 Sep 2026

The less I know about other people's affairs, the happier I am. I'm not interested in caring about people. I once worked with a guy for three years and never learned his name. Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes.
-- Ron Swanson


01 Sep 2026

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.
-- Mark Twain


31 Aug 2026

What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"
-- Terry Pratchett (Pyramids)


30 Aug 2026

What I envy most about tater tots is the way they stay young and innocent forever.
-- Stephen Colbert


29 Aug 2026

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
-- Emo Philips


28 Aug 2026

That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
-- Hillel the Elder

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