quotes of day Friday, October 2, 2026

“Art takes nature as its model.”

“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”

“Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.”

“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

“If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing.”

“If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.”

“I know that previously I would not have dared to express myself so explicitly about so uncertain a matter. I can take this risk because I am now in my eighth decade, and the changing opinions of men scarcely impress me any more; the thoughts of the old masters are of greater value to me than the philosophical prejudices of the Western mind.”

“Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.”

“When I was young I was playing in midfield on the left for Gondomar in a 4-3-3. I was always the number eight playing to the left. So I always used my left foot because it was required. I don't know, I just feel that I do certain things better with the left foot.”

“There is no physical body, no matter what the conditions, that cannot achieve an improved condition. Nothing else in your experience responds as quickly as your own physical body to your patterns of thought.”

“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”

“The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.”

“The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.”

“In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.”

“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”

“Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.”