Famous Quotes Update

Today's Famous Quotes:

George Saintsbury


Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

Randolph Silliman Bourne


Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Charles Caleb Colton


Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V


Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

George Dennison Prentice


Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

Isaac Asimov


No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961


And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.

Proverbs 1417a Bible


He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...

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