Quotes for Today

Today's Quotes:

Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Wystan Hugh Auden


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Unknown


Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Edward R. Murrow


To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.

John Haldane


So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Germaine Greer


Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

William Penn


Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels


To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

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Famous Quotes:

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

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Caleb Carr


So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.

Kelly Marshall


It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


All cruelty springs from weakness.

Sir John Vanbrugh


Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Henrik Ibsen


The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

Al Rogers


In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Aeschylus


I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

Marcus Valerius Martialis


There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

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I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Vince Lombardi


After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7


Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

The Rock


I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best.

Douglas Noel Adams


Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

John Gillespie Magee Jr., High Flight


...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

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Robert Louis Stephenson


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul


Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.

William James


The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Finley Peter Dunne


An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

George Seaton Bowes


The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still.

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Bertrand Russell


One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Danish proverb


Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004


Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

John Ruskin


We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we can not put our heart.

Hermann Hesse


Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Sophocles


Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal.

Henry Ward Beecher


We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

Johann von Goethe


Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.

Gertrude Stein


Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Solomon Short


Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed

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