Today's Quotations
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
...Paul Valery
"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."
...A. J. Liebling
"There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators."
...Will Rogers
"I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
...G. K. Chesterton
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
...Philip G. Hamerton
"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."
...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed."
...James Thurber
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
...Charles M. Schulz
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
...Alfred North Whitehead
"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."
...Dalton Camp
"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."
...Arthur Schopenhauer
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
...Hubert H. Humphrey
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