Quotations Update

Today's Quotations:

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Chapter 2


He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Bruce Lee


True refinement seeks simplicity.

Victor Hugo


Dream no small dreams. They have no power to stir the souls of men.

Brian Sutton-Smith


The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.

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