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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 April 2, 2022

“Never complain and never explain.”—Benjamin Disraeli, U.K. Prime Minister, 1804-1881

Posted on April 1, 2022

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”—Douglas Adams, English author, 1952-2001

Posted on April 1, 2022March 31, 2022

“The most beautiful discovery that true friends can make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.”—Elizabeth Foley, British author, ?-?

Posted on March 30, 2022March 29, 2022

“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900

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

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