Quotes for Today

"Every revolutionary movement also liberates language." ~ Christa Wolf

"The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is ignorance." ~ Kurt Tucholsky

"The intellect is part of life--not its counterpart." ~ Kurt Tucholsky

"What use is it that knowledge mounts? It's knowing something good that counts." ~ Friedrich von Logau

"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean." ~ David Searls

"The Holy Sprit intended to teach us in the Bible how to go to Heaven, not how the heavens go." ~ Galileo

"A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

"It is far easier to blame someone than to take the time to understand the problem." ~ Dave Gurteen

"Time wears away error and polishes truth." ~ Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis, writer (1764-1830)

"Marriage doesn't fail to meet the demands of people; people fail to meet the demands of marriage." ~ Dr. Mardy Grothe

"I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard-fought battles, who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to the result from no distrust of them. But valor and devotion could accomplish nothing that could compensate for the loss [of more men]. I bid you all an affectionate farewell." ~ General Robert E. Lee’s Last Order

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may; light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful." ~ John Constable, painter (1776-1837)

"Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. " ~ Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

"It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean." ~ Karl Kraus

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all." ~ Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- )

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way." ~ Thomas Mann

"It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts." ~ Ella Fitzgerald

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.” ~ H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops" ~ Henry Adams

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice." ~ George Orwell