Today Quotes
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.Oswald Spengler, The Hour of Decision, 1933
Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Dylan Thomas, Collected poems (1952)
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.Edward Young
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning"
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
