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Category: Quotations

Posted on April 12, 2021

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher & polymath, 384-322 BC

Posted on April 1, 2021

“Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love.”—Lew [Lewis] Wallace, American politician, 1827-1905

Posted on March 31, 2021March 31, 2021

“Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.”—George Scialabba, book critic, 1948-

Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021

“Form follows function.”—Louis Henry Sullivan, American architect, 1856-1924

Posted on March 29, 2021March 29, 2021

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on March 28, 2021March 28, 2021

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, 1821-1880

Posted on March 27, 2021

“It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895

Posted on March 26, 2021March 26, 2021

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, 1850-1894

Posted on March 25, 2021March 25, 2021

“It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-American economist, 1908-2006

Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”—Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, 1817-1862

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