Quote of the Day - February (2024)

February 1st

I realise that I'm making gender-based generalizations here, but my feeling is that if God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations, She would not have given us genders.
-- Dave Barry

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February 2nd - Groundhog Day

Top 10* Reasons to Celebrate Groundhog Day
11. It's on nearly every calendar.
10. Helps relieve cabin fever.
9. Spring or not, it's six weeks till St Urho's Day.
8. Forecast is no less reliable than the National Weather Service.
7. At least one of them critters is bound to see things your way.
6. Valentine's Day is too depressing for nerds.
5. Unlike the Easter bunny, he keeps his dirty paws outside.
4. As they used to say on radio: "The Shadow knows".
3. It's fun to say "Punxsutawney".
2. If a rodent can bring us an early spring, more power to him.
1. In Minnesota, either way we come out ahead.

* I had some math training at a Big Ten conference school, which explains why there are eleven reasons in the list.
Don Halley - Groundhog Day Songs

For more information and the official site of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club see here.

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February 3rd

The question was put to him, what hope is; and his answer was, "The dream of a waking man."
-- Laertius Diogenes

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February 4th

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
-- Rita Mae Brown

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February 5th

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.
-- William Davis

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February 6th

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
-- Albert Einstein

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February 7th

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

February 8th

We used to do things for posterity, now we do things for ourselves and leave the bill to posterity.
Anonymous

February 9th

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.
Betty White

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February 10th

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
--Robert A. Heinlein

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February 11th

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world!
--William Shakespeare

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February 12th - Abraham Lincoln's Birthday (not observed on date)

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln

February 13th
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more."
-- George Gordon Byron

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February 14th VALENTINES DAY

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Sonnet 43
Sonnets from the Portuguese

4dk - who just happened on a wonderful poetry reference site. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but here is the url for those times when you need the odd poetry reference.

February 15th

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
-- Josh Billings

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February 16th

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx

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February 17th

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
-- George Orwell

4dk - three cheers for all the dogs in the Best in Show competition at Westminster. As far as I'm concerned they were all BIS.

February 18th

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber

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February 19th

The world is divided into people who think they are right. Anonymous

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February 20th

He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen

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February 21st - President's Day (Observed)

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry Truman

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February 22nd - Washington's Birthday (not observed)

I...always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable Asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
George Washington

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