quotes of day Sunday, July 12, 2026

“Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”

“I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust.”

“A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.”

“The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.”

“Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.”

“Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.”

“I shall never again admire a merely brave man.”

“Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”

“You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.”

“This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”

“Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'”

“What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts.”

“The philosopher caught in the nets of language.”

“In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.”

“It’s not that I want money. It’s the fun of making money and watching it grow.”

“Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!”