Today Quotes
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.Henry Adams
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.Gian Vincenzo Gravina
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.Michel de Montaigne
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.Samuel Johnson
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.Benjamin Franklin
When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.Dwight D. Eisenhower
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.Albert Guinon
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.Albert Guinon
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.Henry S. Haskins
One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, chapter 2