Today's Famous Quotations:

Marcus Valerius Martialis


There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

Epicurus


Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Tallulah Bankhead


It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

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.

William James


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

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.

Sir John Vanbrugh


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

James Branch Cabell


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

George Seaton Bowes


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

Mark Twain


Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

Shirley Temple


I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

George Gurdjieff


Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

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