Quotes Update
Today's Quotes:
Anzia Yezierska
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
George Frost Kennan
The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Russell P. Askue
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft
Frank Zappa
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.
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