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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 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

Posted on August 30, 2020

“I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?”—Jean Cocteau, French poet, 1889-1963

Posted on August 29, 2020

“The desire to write grows with writing.”—Desiderius Ersamus, Dutch philosopher, 1466-1536

Posted on August 27, 2020

“To love and to work.”—Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, 1856-1939

Posted on August 22, 2020

“Irrationally held truth may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

Posted on August 21, 2020

“Never mistake motion for action.”—Ernest Hemingway, American journalist, 1899-1961

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