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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 March 28, 2022

“Let’s face it, when an attractive but aloof man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants.”—Lynda Barry, American cartoonist, 1956-

Posted on March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

“Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.”—Maggie Kuhn, Gray Panthers founder, 1905-1995

Posted on March 21, 2022March 21, 2022

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891

Posted on March 20, 2022March 20, 2022

“It’s sexy to be competent.”—Letty Cottin Pogrebin, American feminist author, 1939-

Posted on March 19, 2022March 19, 2022

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882

Posted on March 16, 2022February 26, 2023

“The medium is the message.”—Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist, 1911-1980

Posted on March 15, 2022

“To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.”—Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860

Posted on March 14, 2022March 14, 2022

“The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.”—Hungarian Proverb

Posted on March 7, 2022March 7, 2022

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

Posted on March 6, 2022March 6, 2022

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”—Susan Ertz, Anglo-American novelist, 1894-1985

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