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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 July 24, 2022July 24, 2022

“Everybody calls ‘clear’ those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922

Posted on July 21, 2022

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”—Mahatma Gandhi, Indian anti-colonial nationalist, 1869-1948

Posted on July 12, 2022July 12, 2022

“If the truth be told, most housework can be omitted without grave consequences.”—Lucy Ellmann, American-born English novelist, 1956-

Posted on July 11, 2022July 11, 2022

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, 1742-1799

Posted on July 10, 2022July 10, 2022

“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy.”—Bob Marley, Jamaican musician, 1945-1981

Posted on July 8, 2022July 8, 2022

“The future is no place to place your better days.”—from the score for “Cry Freedom” (1987), by George Fenton & Jonas Gwangwa, performed by Dave Matthews Band

Posted on June 30, 2022June 30, 2022

“There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had many of them.”—Casey Stengel, American baseball manager, 1890-1975

Posted on June 30, 2022August 5, 2022

“Develop your eccentricities while you’re young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going senile.”—David Ogilvy, US advertising executive, 1911-1999

Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 2022

“There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.”—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, 1742-1799

Posted on June 26, 2022

“A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.”—Lord Chesterfield, British statesman, 1694-1773

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