Today Quotes
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, 1845
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butler
Grief is a species of idleness.Samuel Johnson
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.Machiavelli
Early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and deadJames Thurber
Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.H. L. Mencken
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.R. D. Laing
War is like love; it always finds a way.Bertolt Brecht
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.Cleveland Amory
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdomSir Francis Bacon
