quotes of day Thursday, July 9, 2026

“If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.”

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.”

“Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?”

“A word too much always defeats its purpose.”

“We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.”

“Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”

“We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.”

“A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.”

“She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .”

“Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.”

“The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.”

“Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it.”

“I know many lives worth living.”

“Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.”