quotes of day Monday, August 3, 2026

“Life cannot go on without much forgetting.”

“Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.”

“We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.”

“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.”

“I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.”

“It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy. On the importance of loving what you do.”

“All warfare is based on deception.”

“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

“Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”

“If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.”

“It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them.”

“Money - like health, love, happiness, and all forms of success that you want to create for yourself - is the result of living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself.”

“When I was in fourth grade I was drawing Jordans when my mama couldn't afford them.”