quotes of day Saturday, August 15, 2026

“I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.”

“I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair share of business prosperity. But it either is or ought to be evident to everyone that business has to prosper before anybody can get any benefit from it.”

“If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.”

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

“My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual.”

“Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.”

“Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.”

“(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.”

“If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right”

“Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.”

“It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.”

“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.”

“The society based on production is only productive, not creative.”