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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 September 18, 2020

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”—Susan Sontag, American writer, 1933-2004

Posted on September 14, 2020

“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on September 12, 2020

“I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973

Posted on September 10, 2020

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”—André Maurois, French author, 1885-1967

Posted on September 6, 2020

“Nothing is stronger than habit.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on September 4, 2020

“You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.”—Richard Feynmn, American physicist, 1918-1988

Posted on September 3, 2020

“The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.”—Oscar Levant, American comedian, 1906-1972

Posted on September 2, 2020

“If a poet interprets a poem of his own, he limits its suggestibility.”—William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, 1865-1939

Posted on September 1, 2020

“If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you’d find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from “The Beverly Hillbillies.”—Dave Barry, American writer & humorist, 1947-

Posted on August 31, 2020

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”—Frank Leahy, American football coach, 1908-1973

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