Famous Quotations for Today

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Oscar Wilde


Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Jewish Proverb


As you teach, you learn.

Charles Williams


Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Samuel Smiles


Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

Batman


The Joker Wait'll they get a load of ME

Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus


The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

Friedrich Nietzsche


One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Horace Rumpole


There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

William Ellery Channing


Error is discipline through which we advance.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn


Is yours an honest lament?...Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.

Beverly Nichols


Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:30:50 GMT
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Excerpts From Economic Hearing (San Francisco Chronicle)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:20:06 GMT
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Now hear this: Entertainment quotes (The Globe Gazette)

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:56:38 GMT
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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:08:02 GMT
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Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:18:25 GMT
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