Today's Famous Quotations

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Henry David Thoreau


Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Heinrich Heine


Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Protagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


There are two sides to every question.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton


It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

George Eliot, Middlemarch


The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.

Max Beerbohm


It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Frank McKinney Hubbard


The safest way to double your money is to fold it over twice and put it in your pocket.

General Douglas MacArthur


There is no substitute for victory.

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