Today's Quotations

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Harper Lee, spoken by character Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird


You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Jimmy Townsend


Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Johann von Neumann


You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right Please wait until I am wrong.

Henry Bromel


Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Benjamin Disraeli


Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.

William Wirt


Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

Cyrus H. Curtis


There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"


It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.

Loren


Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Michel de Montaigne


He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Rufus Choate


Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

P. J. O'Rourke


Never fight an inanimate object.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould


Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

The Talmud


Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, Grow

Norah Jones


If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.

Bern Williams


September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Anon.


Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Richard Milhous Nixon


Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.

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Sydney Harris


The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill


It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.

Saadi


Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

Author Unknown


Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

Harry Emerson Fosdick


God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things done.

Soren Kierkegaard, "The Sickness Unto Death"


And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh


Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Norman R. Augustine


I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Orison Swett Marden


Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Kahlil Gibran


Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I think my favorite monster movie is 'Gone With the Wind', because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster.

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge.

William Shakespeare


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Van Wyck Brooks


The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Sir Francis Bacon


Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating


...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

Cuban Proverb


A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.

Serbian proverb


Be humble for you are made of dung. Be noble for you are made of stars.

Rabbi Harold Kushner


I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.


If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

George Eliot


It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

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