Quote for Today: Neel Mukherjee
Mollycoddling was the mother’s duty; the father’s lay elsewhere. As a consequence, his four older children feared and respected him, as they had been taught to do, and the love …
Quote for Today: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, …
Quote for Today: Hermann Hesse
We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to …
Quote for Today: Anna Quindlen
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
He more than half suspected that one of the things which had kept their marriage together when it seemed as if each year brought the news that two or three …
Quote for Today: Jacquetta Hawkes
There is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don’t have, at least, a …
Quote for Today: H. R. Ellis Davidson
The mythology of a people is far more than a collection of pretty or terrifying fables to be retold in carefully bowdlerized form to our schoolchildren. It is the comment …
Quote for Today: Kerry Greenwood
Truth came home one day, naked and wounded, having been beaten and cursed by the people who did not wish to hear, while his brother Falsehood went dressed in the …
Quote for Today: Naomi Long Madgett
I wouldn’t coax the plant if I were you. Such watchful nursing may do it harm. Let the soil rest from so much digging And wait until it’s dry before …
Quote for Today: Kahlil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather …