quotes of day Sunday, September 27, 2026

“It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion.”

“Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.”

“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us”

“If you have never failed you have never lived.”

“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”

“If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.”

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”

“[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.”

“Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.”

“Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.”

“No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.”

“When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.”

“Get the most out of everything in your life; the happiness and the sadness, the success and the failure...get a good perspective of what life is all about. Let the orchestra of your life play all the notes, the high notes, the low rumblings of the difficulties and perplexities that all we all face.”

“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”