Today Quotes
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.Charles F. Kettering
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.Nicholas Chamfort
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.Nicholas Chamfort
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.Friedrich Nietzsche
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.Paul Valery
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.Blaise Pascal
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.Ferdinand Foch