Famous Quotations for Today

Today's Famous Quotations:

Philip Sheridan


If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Samuel Johnson


The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

Alexander Pope


Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Helen Keller


No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.

Victor Hugo


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Lyndon B. Johnson


I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

Eric Butterworth


Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Indira Gandhi


You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.

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Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:45:00 GMT
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Reminding nurses of what inspires their work - Citizen

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:10:00 GMT
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