Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

Rachel Carson


For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Sigmund Freud


I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003


The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

Aristotle


Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

Austin Phelps


Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Joel Rosenberg


I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. 'Legend' means, basically, 'bullshit.'

Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Franklin D. Roosevelt


The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Robert Hutchins


There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

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