groundhog day movie quotes

A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash. ~Robert E. Harris, Laugh with the Circuit Rider



Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. ~Winston Churchill



The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, 1864



A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance



The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. ~Thomas Jefferson



I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. ~Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977



Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. ~Aldous Huxley



A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If my love to you can't be said in a posy, it can't be said in a library. ~Grey Livingston



And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. ~Homer, Iliad



Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. ~Proverb



Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!" ~Aeschylus



To have great poets there must be great audiences too. ~Walt Whitman



The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado



Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent. ~Langston Coleman



Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~Anne Bradstreet



To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush



Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. ~John Haynes Holmes



I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for. ~Henry David Thoreau



Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, The Republic