Quote of the Day

“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”

– Herman Melville

What Herman Melville Can Teach Us About the Trump Era - BillMoyers

Quote of the Day

“What the world needs are more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.”
– Oscar Levant

Oscar Levant Signed Photograph | RR Auction

Quote of the Day

“What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”
– Nora Ephron

The Nora Ephron We Forget | The New Yorker

Quote of the Day

“There is so much to be said for modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance in the community.” – Oscar Wilde

The Life and Times of Oscar Wilde | Book Riot

Quote of the Day

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.”
– Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck: The Mother of all Humorists - YouTube

Quote of the Day

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
– H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken | 19th - 20th Century American Literature

Quote of the Day

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler they consider god-fearing and pious.”
– Aristotle

Aristotle at 2,400 | Britannica