Today Quotes
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Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend.Nicholas Venturella
Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.Henry David Thoreau, Walden
To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.Steve Prefontaine
There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.Earnest Hemingway
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.Henry Ward Beecher
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats.H. L. Mencken
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.E.L. Doctorow
