Today Quotes
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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
Beware the fury of a patient man.John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolationis
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.Henri-Fr
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)