Daily Famous Quotes

Today's Famous Quotes:

Edmund Burke


The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Bryant Gumbel


I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

Adam Smith


The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

Bill Watterson


I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)


Death hath so many doors to let out life.

William Shakespeare


God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty

Sir Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World


Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

J. R. R. Tolkien


If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Ken Olson


There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

Dorothy Sayers


The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

Norman Cousins


We will not have peace by afterthought.

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