quotes of day Tuesday, September 15, 2026

“Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.”

“You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?”

“Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.”

“Boys do cry, but I don't think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.”

“Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.”

“A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.”

“What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”

“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.”

“Sometimes I'll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I'll just remember it.”

“The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities.”

“Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.”

“First rule in this world baby... don't believe ANYTHING you see on the news.”

“I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that's for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn't play golf.”