Today Quotes
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.Author Unknown
The price is what you pay; the value is what you receive.Author Unknown
"Careful with fire" is good advice we know.
"Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.George Washington
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.Henry Ward Beecher
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.Henry Steele Commager
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.J. William Galbraith
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.John Oliver Hobbes