Daily Quotations

Today's Quotations:

Henri Frdric Amiel


To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

Howard Aiken


Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.

John Lancaster Spalding


As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Tom Landry


Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Prince Charles, of Wales


Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

Charles Scribner, Jr.


Beyond the formative effects of reading on the individuals composing society, the fact that they have read the same books gives them experiences and ideas in common. These constitute a kind of shorthand of ideas which helps make communication quicker and more efficient. That is what we mean when we say figuratively of another person, We speak the same language.

Dazed and Confused


Slater Behind every good man there is a woman, and that woman was Martha Washington man, and everyday George would come home, she would have a big fat bowl waiting for him, man when he come in the door, man she was a hip, hip, hip lady, man.

Thomas Troward


We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 3


To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Robert Anthony


Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Mark Twain


There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:26:00 GMT
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:26:00 GMT
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Sympathy notes fine when a pet has died - Star News Online

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:57:00 GMT
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Report on Scripture in the Americas - Zenit

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:46:00 GMT
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