Quotes of the Day

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. -Proverb, Spanish
It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. -Proverb, Spanish
2010-02-27 04:00:03

Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now. -Smith, Arabella
Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now. -Smith, Arabella
2010-02-27 02:00:02

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. -Caussin, Nicolas
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. -Caussin, Nicolas
2010-02-26 16:00:13

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. -Shaw, George Bernard
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. -Shaw, George Bernard
2010-02-26 12:00:03

"There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers."
Seth Green quotes
Seth Green
2010-02-26 12:00:02

Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die. -Louis, Joe
Everybody wants to go heaven, but nobody wants to die. -Louis, Joe
2010-02-26 10:00:03

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. -Wharton, Edith
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. -Wharton, Edith
2010-02-26 06:00:04

You are only worth has much as you have.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Prayer is a groan.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. -Hegel, Georg
The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study. -Hegel, Georg
2010-02-26 04:00:02

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. -Cioran, E. M.
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. -Cioran, E. M.
2010-02-26 02:00:03

The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. -Confucius
The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions. -Confucius
2010-02-25 16:00:02

"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression."

"Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger."

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket."

"Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands."

"Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides."

My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. -Emerson, Ralph Waldo
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can. -Emerson, Ralph Waldo
2010-02-25 12:00:04

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person. -Fischer, Louis
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person. -Fischer, Louis
2010-02-25 10:00:02

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. -Peacock, Thomas Love
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. -Peacock, Thomas Love
2010-02-25 06:00:03

Only poetry inspires poetry.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. -Burke, Edmund
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. -Burke, Edmund
2010-02-25 04:00:02

Character matters; leadership descends from character. -Limbaugh, Rush
Character matters; leadership descends from character. -Limbaugh, Rush
2010-02-25 02:00:06

We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. -Mother Teresa
We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. -Mother Teresa
2010-02-24 16:00:02

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. -Stirner, Max
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. -Stirner, Max
2010-02-24 12:00:03

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. -Marx, Groucho
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. -Marx, Groucho
2010-02-24 10:00:03

Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. -Mccarthy, Joe
Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. -Mccarthy, Joe
2010-02-24 06:00:02

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. -Kollwitz, KaThe
No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. -Kollwitz, KaThe
2010-02-24 04:00:02

You create your opportunities by asking for them. -Hansen, Patty
You create your opportunities by asking for them. -Hansen, Patty
2010-02-24 02:00:07

Laughter translates into any language. -Graffiti
Laughter translates into any language. -Graffiti
2010-02-23 16:00:03

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. -Riley, Pat
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. -Riley, Pat
2010-02-23 12:00:02

"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."
Henry Miller quotes
Henry Miller
2010-02-23 10:00:08

The more liberty you give away the more you will have. -Ingersoll, Robert Green
The more liberty you give away the more you will have. -Ingersoll, Robert Green
2010-02-23 10:00:02

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei quotes
Galileo Galilei
2010-02-23 10:00:02

"The secret of happiness is something to do."
John Burroughs quotes
John Burroughs
2010-02-23 08:00:08

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. -Fuller, Thomas
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. -Fuller, Thomas
2010-02-23 06:00:03

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Character is victory organized.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

There is a destiny that makes us brothers:None goes his way alone:All that we send into the lives of othersComes back onto our own.

The Thames is liquid history.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Forget the past and live the present hour. -Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Forget the past and live the present hour. -Bolton, Sarah Knowles
2010-02-23 04:00:03

There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. -Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable. -Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
2010-02-23 02:00:03

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. -Da Vinci, Leonardo
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. -Da Vinci, Leonardo
2010-02-22 16:00:02

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others."

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. -Kundera, Milan
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. -Kundera, Milan
2010-02-22 12:00:02

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
Kahlil Gibran quotes
Kahlil Gibran
2010-02-22 10:00:10

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. -La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen. -La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
2010-02-22 10:00:05

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. -Lamartine, Alphonse De
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul. -Lamartine, Alphonse De
2010-02-22 06:00:03

One chance is all you need.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Who dares wins.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. -Stevenson, Adlai E.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. -Stevenson, Adlai E.
2010-02-22 04:00:03