Famous Quotations for Today
Today's Famous Quotations:
Ennius
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
William James
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
Sankara
The spirit is smothered, as it were, by ignorance, but so soon as ignorance is destroyed, spirit shine forth, like the sun when released from clouds.
Charles Lindbergh
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
William Shakespeare, "Othello", Act 1 scene 1
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.
Mario M Cuomo
I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
R. Goldberg
The shortest distance between two points is not a very interesting journey.
Scarface
Tony Montana Say hello to my little friend
Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Jesse Louis Jackson
America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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