Today's Quotations

Quotations:

La Rochefoucauld


There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.

James Abram Garfield


If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Isaiah IX.22 Bible


A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

Abdul Baha, Bahai Writings


If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.

Woodrow Wilson


There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

Ignazio Silone


On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"


THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.

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