quotes of day Friday, September 11, 2026

“As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government.”

“[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.”

“The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.”

“Smile if you want a smile from another face.”

“We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other ... We cannot move forward if cynics and critics swoop down and pick apart anything that goes wrong, to a point where we lose sight of what is right, decent and uniquely good about America.”

“Women don't like violence,But when their husbands desert them, that is different.”

“Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.”

“I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!”

“A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful - while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with - he who knows nothing about a subject, and, what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?”

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

“Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.”