Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

Alfred A. Montapert


The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Jeffrey Vlaming


Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.

Tryon Edwards


Between two evils, choose neither between two goods, choose both.

William Blake


Where Mercy, Love, and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

Charles De Gaulle


I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

William Shakespeare, "As You Like It", Act 1 scene 2


The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

George Du Maurier


Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

Roy G. Blount, Jr.


I prefer my oysters fried That way I know my oysters died.

Anthony Powell


He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

Zora Neale Hurston


Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

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