Bonus Quote of the Day: 25 December 2024 #QotD

“That’s long enough! Wake up! Wake up! It’s Christmas!!” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[Merry Christmas to all you bleary-eyed parents.]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 9 October 2022 #QotD

“He left to get married! That’s not retirin’, that’s the same as dyin’.” -Mustrum Ridcully
[Happy 12th Anniversary to a woman who has every good quality in the world, except taste.]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 19 September 2021 #QotD

“Antiquated as it may seem, it’s still a federal crime to board a ship too early, whether you’re planning on sinking your teeth into a sailor’s ear or not.” -Mike Chase
[Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 20 June 2021 #QotD

“‘Deconstructing’ all images of the ideal husband and father is not likely to give rise to a utopia. The more likely result is a selfish young man who doesn’t feel any strong obligation to the children he has fathered.” -Leonard Sax
[Another one to celebrate Father's Day.]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 6 September 2020

 

“To have someone remember a favorite book and sit down to read it aloud is, quite simply, to feel loved.” -Pamela Paul & Maria Russo

[Happy Read a Book Day!]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 21 June 2020

“You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father.” -Meg Murry, A Wrinkle in Time

Bonus Quote of the Day: 2 February 2020

“This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.” -Phil, Groundhog Day
[Happy Groundhog Day!
Only six more weeks of winter, or three fortnights depending on how the shadow goes.]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 19 January 2020

“A species that views a future generation as merely parasitical has no future.” -James Mallon
[Happy National Sanctity of Human Life Day!]

Bonus Quote of the Day: 9 October 2019

“Che Guevara was KILLED.


“Only people can be murdered.” -@ClarkHat

Bonus Quote of the Day: 15 March 2019

“That's what these incidents [mass murders] tend to have in common: A serious lack of shooting back.” -Tamara Keel

Bonus Quote of the Day: 8 March 2019

“So, you want to fight for the equality of women? Shine the spotlight on Iran, on Afghanistan, on all the places in the world where a woman can get killed for talking back. Name, shame, denounce. Strip the mask for those who apologize for those regimes even among us — many of them ‘liberal’ — and make them own the horrible things they’re allowing to be done.” -Sarah Hoyt

Bonus Quote of the Day: 27 January 2019

“[A]fter all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.” -Eeyore

Bonus Quote of the Day: 25 December 2018

“[I]t was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!” -Charles Dickens

Bonus Quote of the Day: 3 November 2018

“Friendly reminder: tonight we ‘fall back’ to standard time, and daylight savings time is horrible and should be eliminated” -Scott Lincicome

Bonus Quote of the Day: 16 October 2018

“The woman’s choice for her own body does not validate choice for the body of another.” -Russell M. Nelson

Bonus Quote of the Day: 26 August 2018

“There’s nothing quite like coming home to a wagging tail or snuggling on the sofa with a furry friend, and enthusiastic cuddles from excitable puppies are the best tonic I know when I’m feeling low.” -Emma Stone

Bonus Quote of the Day: 4 July 2018

“Happy Fourth Of July. Keep on Revolting.” -Sarah Hoyt

Bonus Quote of the Day: 25 May 2018

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.” -Dolphins, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Bonus Quote of the Day: 24 March 2018

“A law biding citizen will NOT and should NOT need to give their guns to the government as a reaction to the government failing to protect my school with their guns.” -Kyle Kashuv

Bonus Quote of the Day: 17 September 2017

“The Constitution does not care about the tone of your skin, whom you love, which political party you’ve vowed to support or which language you speak—if you’re speaking the language of freedom.” -Pete R. Brownell

[As it is Constitution Day, I thought a bonus quote of the day would not be inappropriate.]