Today’s Quotes

We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'

ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking.

I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass.

A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engenders only a strong desire to be elsewhere.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.