Quote of the Day: September 2, 2016
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
There is peace, in so far as the absence of slaughter may be called by that name, but there is necessarily little harmony of tastes or pursuits. Edwin Abbott (1838-1926)
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Art…is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. W. Sommerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Having learned the trick of beating and loving and suffering, the poor faithful heart persisted, although it lived on memories and carried on its sentimental operations mostly in secret. Kate Wiggin (1856-1923)
There are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
Theodore Dreiser (1871) Dreiser was a novelist and pioneer of naturalism in American literature. After working as a journalist, magazine editor, and publisher, he published his first novel, Sister Carrie, which was denounced as scandalous. In 1915, the withdrawal of […]
Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Contempt is that which putteth an edge upon anger, as much or more than the hurt itself. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Character is not cut in marbleāit is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. George Elliot (1819-1880)
God…doth hang the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men’s power to be agreeable. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself…and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-65)
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