quotes of day Wednesday, August 5, 2026

“Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.”

“It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?”

“The present eye praises the present object.”

“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

“The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.”

“Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.”

“We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”

“The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!”

“Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.”

“We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.”

“A light heart lives long.”

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

“It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break an atom than a prejudice.”