Quotations for Today

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Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics


To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Sammy Davis Jr.


I gotta be me.

Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II


Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few.

John Irving, _The Cider House Rules_ (1985)


What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

Hasidic Saying


He who feels no compassion will become insane.

Anton Chekhov


A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.

William E. Channing


Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Bill Watterson


I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

Elmer Davis


One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for supporting separation between church and state during his campaign, 1


Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.

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