Today's Quotations

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Akhenaton


Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy.

Lily Langtry


Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Otavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)


Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Heinrich Heine


The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Burk Hudson


Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

Themistocles, from Plutarch, Lives


I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.

Alexander Pope


A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"


A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais


Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.

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