Famous Quotations for Today

Today's Famous Quotations:

Paul Sweezy


The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

Henry Fielding


If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Denis Diderot


There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer


To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Benjamin Franklin


Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Irish Proverb


A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing.

Ovid


Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

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