Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:

William Congreve, The Mourning Bride, Act 1 Scene 1


Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Sophocles


Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Mark Twain


In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Edmund Wilson


There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

A.E. Houseman


When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."

Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

Norman Podhoretz


Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

John Adams


In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

G. K. Chesterton, "Heretics", 1905


There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Dan Quayle


I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon


Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.

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