Today Quotes
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Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.Frances Hodgson Burnett
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.Benjamin Disraeli
Perfection is the enemy of the good.Gustave Flaubert
The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.Oscar Wilde, Foreward, The Picture of Dorian gray
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.William Ralph Inge
Too many people overvalue what they are, and undervalue what they are not.Malcolm Forbes
Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity.Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington
There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.Frank Zappa
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.Clifton Fadiman