quotes of day Saturday, October 3, 2026

“Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!”

“I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.”

“We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us.”

“Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.”

“Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.”

“Seize the moment and dont squander it. Cause you never know when it all could be over.”

“Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.”

“It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society.”

“Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.”

“If we must grind up human flesh and bones in the industrial machine that we call modern America, then, before God, I assert that those who consume the coal and you and I who benefit from that service, because we live in comfort, we owe protection to those men first and we owe security for their families if they die.”

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

“It is wealth to be content.”

“Confidence is the greatest friend.”

“A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.”