Today Quotes
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.Phyllis Diller
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.Phyllis Diller
A waist is a terrible thing to mind.Jane Caminos
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.Henry Ward Beecher, "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.C. P. Snow
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.Bernard Weisberger, America Afire
It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (Book)
No man is useless while he has a friend.Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no substitute for victory.Douglas McArthur, Farwell Speech to Joint Session of US Congress, 1952