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The Daily Extract™/Proverbium Seniorum™ is a Commonplace Book in the form of a Blog of Quotations, Epigrams, and Excerpts. It can be found at https://proverbiumseniorum.blog/ Engraving: “Odin in the guise of a wanderer," 1886, Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)

Posted on August 7, 2022August 7, 2022

“Nobody learns no nothing from no history.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band; in ‘Avenue B’ from “Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike” album

Posted on August 6, 2022August 6, 2022

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”—Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, 1903-1990

Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022

“A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.”—Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”—Pliny the Younger [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundis], 61-c.113 AD

Posted on August 2, 2022August 1, 2022

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”—Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist, 1893-1986

Posted on July 30, 2022July 30, 2022

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”—George Smith Patton, U.S. Army general, 1885-1945

Posted on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900

Posted on July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

“Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961

Posted on July 27, 2022July 26, 2022

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”—Philip Johnson, American architect, 1906-2005

Posted on July 26, 2022July 25, 2022

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”—Italian proverb

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