Famous Quotes for Today

Today's Famous Quotes:

L. Schefer


The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Alfred North Whitehead


It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World

H. L. Mencken


A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Henry David Thoreau


I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Johann von Goethe


Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Buddy Hackett


Ya know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show.

William Cowper


Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.

Woodrow Wilson


I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Raymond Chandler


She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

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