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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 December 11, 2021

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.”—Satchel Paige, Major League Baseball pitcher, 1906-1982

Posted on December 10, 2021

“Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”—Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer), American advice columnist, 1918-2002

Posted on December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

“It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees!”—Dolores Ibarruri, Spanish communist politician, 1895-1989

Posted on December 8, 2021December 7, 2021

“You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on December 7, 2021December 6, 2021

“Life is a gamble at terrible odds; if it were a bet, you would not take it.”—Tom Stoppard, British playwright, 1937-

Posted on December 6, 2021December 5, 2021

“Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.”—John O’Hara, American author, 1905-1970

Posted on December 5, 2021December 4, 2021

“To judge of the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.”—François-Gaston de Levis, French army officer, 1719-1787

Posted on December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

“When the fight begins within himself, a man is worth something.”—Robert Browning, English poet, 1812-1889

Posted on November 28, 2021November 28, 2021

“Marriage is but a necessary evil.”—Menander, Greek dramatist, 342-291 BC

Posted on November 27, 2021

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”—Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, Irish novelist, 1855-1897

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