Today's Famous Quotations

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Benjamin Franklin


In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Sydney Harris


The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Anthony D'Angelo


Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement.

John Tillotson


A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

William Wordsworth


Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

Sir Winston Churchill


Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Richard Hofstadter


A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.


Let each man exercise the art he knows.

American Heart Association Cookbook


Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.

F Scott


Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Sam Ervin


The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.

A. L. Prusick


It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.

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