Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:

Daniel Webster


Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)


We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Jimmy Cannon


Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

George Santayana


To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

Eric Pio


Make friends not enemies, and you will always have eyes in the back of your head.

Ayn Rand


Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Author Unknown


One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our greed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.

Og Mandino


I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.

John Heisman


When in doubt, punt

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