Today Quotes
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You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.Author Unknown
To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.South
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.Overlung
By words the mind is winged.Aristophanes
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Bremer
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.Robert Byrne
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.Anatole France
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.Eric Hoffer
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.