Today's Famous Quotes
Straight to the Famous Quotes ...
Arthur Marx
So. The time has come for me to get my kite flying, stretch out in the sun, kick off my shoes, and speak my piece. 'The days of struggle are over,' I should be able to say. 'I can look back now and tell myself I don't have a single regret.' But I do. Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. 'Harpo, my boy,' he said, 'I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember.' My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. 'Yes, sir' I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.
Charles Scribner, Jr.
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
Margaret Fuller
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Arnold Glasgow
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Josephine Hart, "Sin"
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.
Bertrand Russell
Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Pat Elphinstone
The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound.
Charles Krauthammer
Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Doug Larson
There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.
Honore' de Balzac
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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