Today Quotes
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.H. L. Mencken
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.Paul Valery
The truth is more important than the facts.Frank Lloyd Wright
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.Max Beerbohm
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.William Penn
He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.Dr. Isaac Barrow, quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert Hubbard
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard