Today's Quotes

I have always enjoyed words, the hearing of a tale, the telling, the putting on paper or their effect on society.


"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt." ~ G.K. Chesterton, author (1874-1936)

"The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips." ~ Heinrich Heine


"Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference." ~ Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." ~ Isadora Duncan


"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does." ~ Jorge Luis Borges, writer (1899-1986)

"Freedom is always and exclusively the freedom for the one who thinks differently." ~ Rosa Luxemburg

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." ~ Woody Allen, author actor, and filmmaker (1935- )


"I never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure." ~ Clarence (Seward) Darrow

"The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot." ~ Rolf Hochhuth


"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become, through your will, a general natural law." ~ Immanuel Kant

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." ~ Socrates

"I am happiest when I am idle. I could live for months without performing any kind of labor and feel fresh and vigorous enough to go right on in the same way." ~ Armetus Ward

"The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things." ~ Plato

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy -- for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." ~ Anatole France


"Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening." ~ Maya Angelou, poet (1928- )

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man." ~ Madame de Stael, writer (1766-1817)

"Freedom...is not an inconsequential chucking of one's weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self." ~ Iris Murdoch


"I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere." ~ Bobby Ann Mason