Quotations for Today

Today's Quotations:

Dietrich Bonhoeffer


If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Samuel Butler


Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Francois Mitterand


il faut laisser du temps au temps
(you have to give time time - approximate translation)

Ogden Nash


People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

German proverb


The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

Aesop


United we stand, divided we fall.

A. F. Shaw


I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.

Michael J. Fox


One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor


Toward the accomplishment of an aim, which in wantonness of atrocity would seem to partake of the insane, he will direct a cool judgement, sagacious and sound. These men are madmen, and of the most dangerous sort.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976


The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5


Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her.

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky


The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle.

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