Today Quotes
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)
To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993)
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.Abraham Lincoln
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
Beware the fury of a patient man.John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (1681)
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolationis
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.Abba Eban