If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. -Isaac Mophatlane
If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. -Isaac Mophatlane
Category: Quotes of the day
General Leopoldo Galtieri
I feel very proud, even though they didn’t elect me, to be President of the Argentines. General Leopoldo Galtieri quotes
Raquel Welch
Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. Raquel Welch quotes
Ivan Chtcheglov
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have …
Jean Arp
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise …
Ibn Gabirol
Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings. Ibn Gabirol quotes
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. -Abraham Lincoln
The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much. -Germain G. Glien
The older I grow the more I listen to people who don’t talk much. -Germain G. Glien
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. -Thaddeus Golas
Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it. -Thaddeus Golas
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. -Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. -Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
"Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy." – Sun Tzu
“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy’s strategy.” – Sun Tzu
They that envy others are their inferiors. -Saying
They that envy others are their inferiors. -Saying
It’s good to be clever, but not to show it. -French Proverb
It’s good to be clever, but not to show it. -French Proverb
Sylvia Ashton Warner
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth; and truth rewarded me. Sylvia Ashton Warner quotes
Rafael Sabatini
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. Rafael Sabatini quotes
Konrad Lorenz
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. …
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. -Friedrich Nietzsche
It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -Ludwig Van Beethoven
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. -African Proverb
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. -African Proverb
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. -H. L. Mencken
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. -H. L. Mencken
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Billy Wilder
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark — that is …
Reginald B. Mansell
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Reginald B. Mansell quotes
Jack Nicklaus
He had a lot of talent, but didn’t have much dedication, wasn’t organized, didn’t know how to learn, didn’t know how to comprehend what he …
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. -John Mason Brown
Charm is a glow within a woman which casts a most becoming light on others. -John Mason Brown
Habits change into character. -Ovid
Habits change into character. -Ovid
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. -Aesop
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. -Aesop
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. -Pat Riley
Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. -Pat Riley
Robert Baden-Powell
“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.” Robert Baden-Powell quotes
Doubt is the father of invention. -Galileo Galilei
Doubt is the father of invention. -Galileo Galilei
Francis Schaeffer
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that …
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. -Dumas The Younger
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. -Dumas The Younger
A. A. Attanasio
“Silence is a text easy to misread.” A. A. Attanasio quotes
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self. -Henri Frederic Amiel
There is no respect for others without humility in one’s self. -Henri Frederic Amiel
Manana is often the busiest day of the week. -Spanish Proverb
Manana is often the busiest day of the week. -Spanish Proverb
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. -Arnold H. Glasgow
In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are. -Arnold H. Glasgow
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -Henry David Thoreau
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -Henry David Thoreau