Famous Quotations Update

Today's Famous Quotations:

Albert Schweitzer


As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Graffito, in Los Angeles


I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

Marcus Terentius Varro


The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

George Orwell


Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Moliere


No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

William Powell


Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Samuel Smiles


It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune...

Jose Raul Bernardo, Silent Wing (Simon & Schuster, 1998) One of the Best Novels of 1998 (LA Times)


Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through.

The Sufi


Look to this day,For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existencethe bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendor of beauty.For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision,But today well lived makesevery yesterday a dream of happinessand every tomorrow a vision of hope.Look well, therefore to this day,such is the salutation of the dawn.

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