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Quotes Home

Today's Quote:

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
— Thomas Carlyle

Previous Quotes:

March 31st
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
— Jane Austen, EMMA

March 30th
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— William Hazlitt

March 29th
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
— Lewis Carroll

March 28th
Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
— Carlos Santana

March 27th
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
— Abigail Van Buren

March 26th
To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess.
— Glenn Holm

March 25th
We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.
— Anne Sullivan

March 24th
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
— Samuel Butler

March 23rd
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
— Dag Hammarskjold

March 22nd
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
— Samuel Pepys

March 21st
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
— James M. Barrie

March 20th
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
— Robin Williams

March 19th
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
— Elvis Costello

March 18th
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
— Erma Bombeck

March 17th
O Ireland isn't it grand you look--
Like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!
— John Locke

March 16th
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
— Charles Schulz

March 15th
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
— Sir William Bragg

March 14th
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
— Julia Alvarez, IN THE TIME OF BUTTERFLIES

March 13th
Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence.
— Ray Bradbury, FAHRENHEIT 451

March 12th
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
— Mark Twain

March 11th
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
— Adlai E. Stevenson

March 10th
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
— Edward Albee

March 9th
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
— Catherine the Great

March 8th
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange --- my youth.
— Sara Teasdale

March 7th
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson

March 6th
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
— Ken Kesey

March 5th
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
— Jean-Luc Godard

March 4th
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde

March 3rd
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
— Les Brown

March 2nd
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck

March 1st
To be yourself in a world that is doing its best, day and night to make you like everybody else --- is to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
— E.E. Cummings

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