Quotations for Today

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William Shakespeare


When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.

Josh Billings


Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early.

John Dryden


Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

Winston Churchill


We shape our buildings and they shape us.

Alexander Pope


A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Peter Alcantara


The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself.

George Washington


There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib, Nahjul Balgha (Peak of Eloquence), saying no. 2


2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort.

Gustave Flaubert


Perfection is the enemy of the good.

Louise Erdrich


In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. - James Grover Thurber
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The down-payment-poor are about to get squeezed

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