Quotes of Days Past

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July 10, 2020

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Plan - Work
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July 09, 2020

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Funny - Reading
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July 08, 2020

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Benjamin Franklin

Polymath, Founding Father of the United States

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
Mortality
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July 07, 2020

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Paul Dirac

Theoretical Physicist

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
God - Mathematics
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July 06, 2020

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
Failing - Man
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July 05, 2020

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

Inventors don't have time for married life.
Inventing - Marriage
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July 04, 2020

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Francis Bacon

Philosopher

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Enemy - Revenge - Transgression
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July 03, 2020

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Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
Reading
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July 02, 2020

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Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
Giving - God - Gods - Having
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July 01, 2020

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Sleeping
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June 30, 2020

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

Mary is more important than the apostles.
Apostle - Bible
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June 29, 2020

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
Cowardice - Lie - Truth
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June 28, 2020

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

Movies are like writing history with lightning.
History - Movies
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June 27, 2020

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Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
Reading
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June 26, 2020

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Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.
Giving - God - Gods - Having
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June 25, 2020

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.
Equality - Inequality - Reject
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June 24, 2020

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Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
Help - Selfishness
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June 23, 2020

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.
Actions - Machine - Man - Mindset
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June 22, 2020

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Explanation - Knowledge
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June 21, 2020

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Aristotle

Philosopher

The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Activity - Existence - Life - Quality
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