Notable Quotes for February

Phil: "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?"

Ralph: "That about sums it up for me."

– Groundhog Day, 1996


“They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.”

 – Bill Keane

American Cartoonist

Creator of Family Circus

1922-2011


All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

– Charles M. Schulz 


“Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.”

– Roger Ebert


“The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.”

- Kin Hubbard


Whereas, Today, the 2nd day of February, is the genuine, original and undisputed ground-hog day of our ancestors, handed down to posterity for many generations; and

Whereas, the same has not been legally recognized by any legislative enactment appearing on our Statutes; and

Whereas, We consider it almost an unpardonable oversight in the party which has for so many years administered the affairs of this State; therefore, be it

Resolved, That we, the representative men of this State, filled with patriotism and love for the prognosticator of the weather, recognize this day as “Ground-hog day,” and that legal enactment should fix the date, the 2nd of February, which shall forever remain without defalcation or discount, as Ground-hog day, never to be changed by constitutional amendments or acts of any Legislature of this State.

- Journal of the House of Representatives of the 38th General Assembly (Regular Session) of the State of Missouri, Saturday, February 2, 1895


“[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”

- Harry S. Truman

33rd U.S. President 


If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birth date. I was born after Valentine’s Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14.
A Latin lover should be born on Valentine’s Day.
I said no.

– Cesar Romero

2-15-1907–1994

Romero’s last role was The Joker in the iconic 1960’s Batman TV show.


The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several — one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

– Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe