Today Quotes
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.Jonathan Swift
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.Fred Allen
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.Seneca
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?Count Oxenstierna
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.Douglas Adams
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.Margaret Fuller
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You