Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:

Henry L. Mencken


The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

J. C. Penny


I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

Albert Einstein


Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Alan Marshall Beck


Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

Aesop


Appearances often are deceiving.

Lord Byron


Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

Aristotle


Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Erma Bombeck


If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Jean Kerr


One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time.

Kahlil Gibran


And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Clive Staples Lewis


Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another What You, too Thought I was the only one.

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Quotes From the 2008 Candidates

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:03:00 GMT
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Leah Garchik: Overheard love quotes, part 2 (San Francisco Chronicle)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:18:54 GMT
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Quotes from the 2008 candidates (The San Luis Obispo Tribune)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:14:27 GMT
Quotes from the Democratic and Republican candidates on Tuesday. --- DEMOCRATS

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