https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#daily_quoteDaily Quote2026-08-16T14:55:05.425027+00:00Daily Quotepython-feedgenhttps://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/en.wikiquote.org.icohttps://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/en.wikiquote.org.icoOne quote a day, with a Wikiquote link to the author when one existshttps://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-16“Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.” — Baltasar Gracián2026-08-16T00:00:00+00:00Baltasar GraciánSometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. — Baltasar Gracián2026-08-16T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-15“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” — Aristotle2026-08-15T00:00:00+00:00AristotleMoral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. — Aristotle2026-08-15T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-14“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart” — Eleanor Roosevelt2026-08-14T00:00:00+00:00Eleanor RooseveltMany people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt2026-08-14T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-13“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.” — Franz Kafka2026-08-13T00:00:00+00:00Franz KafkaI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. — Franz Kafka2026-08-13T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-12“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” — Mother Teresa2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00Mother TeresaLet us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. — Mother Teresa2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-11“A good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way for others.” — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk2026-08-11T00:00:00+00:00Mustafa Kemal AtatürkA good teacher is like a candle, it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk2026-08-11T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-10“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00Oscar WildeI don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. — Oscar Wilde2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-09“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.” — Betty Friedan2026-08-09T00:00:00+00:00Betty FriedanIt is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan2026-08-09T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-08“I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.” — Winston Churchill2026-08-08T00:00:00+00:00Winston ChurchillI have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts. — Winston Churchill2026-08-08T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-07“As the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friends are the ones walking in.” — Anonymous2026-08-07T00:00:00+00:00AnonymousAs the rest of the world is walking out the door, your best friends are the ones walking in. — Anonymous2026-08-07T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-06“How does life construct those lines of force which make us alive?” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry2026-08-06T00:00:00+00:00Antoine de Saint-ExupéryHow does life construct those lines of force which make us alive? — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry2026-08-06T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-05“Cheat the earth and the earth will cheat you.” — Proverb2026-08-05T00:00:00+00:00ProverbCheat the earth and the earth will cheat you. — Proverb2026-08-05T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-04“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.” — Rumi2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00RumiThe minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-03“During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.” — Maureen Corrigan2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00Maureen CorriganDuring the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism. — Maureen Corrigan2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-02“Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.” — Winston Churchill2026-08-02T00:00:00+00:00Winston ChurchillEating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion. — Winston Churchill2026-08-02T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-08-01“His reputation will go on increasing because scarcely anyone reads him.” — Voltaire2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00VoltaireHis reputation will go on increasing because scarcely anyone reads him. — Voltaire2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-31“Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.” — Confucius2026-07-31T00:00:00+00:00ConfuciusReviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher. — Confucius2026-07-31T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-30“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.” — Blaise Pascal2026-07-30T00:00:00+00:00Blaise PascalIt is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. — Blaise Pascal2026-07-30T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-29“Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.” — Bruce Lee2026-07-29T00:00:00+00:00Bruce LeeDefense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other. — Bruce Lee2026-07-29T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-28“The sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all direction, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines. You can see what a ray is if you observe the sun's light entering a dark room through a narrow opening. It extends in a straight line and impacts, so to speak, on any solid body in its path which blocks passage through the air on the other side: it settles there and does not slip off or fall.” — Marcus Aurelius2026-07-28T00:00:00+00:00Marcus AureliusThe sun appears to pour itself down, and indeed its light pours in all direction, but the stream does not run out. This pouring is linear extension: that is why its beams are called rays, because they radiate in extended lines. You can see what a ray is if you observe the sun's light entering a dark room through a narrow opening. It extends in a straight line and impacts, so to speak, on any solid body in its path which blocks passage through the air on the other side: it settles there and does not slip off or fall. — Marcus Aurelius2026-07-28T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-27“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.” — Kurt Vonnegut2026-07-27T00:00:00+00:00Kurt VonnegutThose who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. — Kurt Vonnegut2026-07-27T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-26“Pain doesn't tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue, you will change.” — Kobe Bryant2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00Kobe BryantPain doesn't tell you when you ought to stop. Pain is the little voice in your head that tries to hold you back because it knows if you continue, you will change. — Kobe Bryant2026-07-26T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-25“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” — Rumi2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00RumiOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. — Rumi2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-24“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.” — Friedrich Nietzsche2026-07-24T00:00:00+00:00Friedrich NietzscheAt bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. — Friedrich Nietzsche2026-07-24T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-23“The highest form of vanity is love of fame.” — George Santayana2026-07-23T00:00:00+00:00George SantayanaThe highest form of vanity is love of fame. — George Santayana2026-07-23T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-22“Truth is a matter of the imagination.” — Ursula K. Le Guin2026-07-22T00:00:00+00:00Ursula K. Le GuinTruth is a matter of the imagination. — Ursula K. Le Guin2026-07-22T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-21“Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.” — Francis Bacon2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00Francis BaconJudges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. — Francis Bacon2026-07-21T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-20“99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00Mokokoma Mokhonoana99.99% of fools deny their foolishness. The rest underestimate it. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-19“It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world” — Sokrates2026-07-19T00:00:00+00:00SokratesIt is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world — Sokrates2026-07-19T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-18“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” — Erica Jong2026-07-18T00:00:00+00:00Erica JongEveryone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads. — Erica Jong2026-07-18T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-17“Prepare for the worst, expect the best and take what comes. This is fatalism.” — Anonymous2026-07-17T00:00:00+00:00AnonymousPrepare for the worst, expect the best and take what comes. This is fatalism. — Anonymous2026-07-17T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-16“Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south?” — Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)2026-07-16T00:00:00+00:00Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)Who do you think's better looking people in the north or people in the south? — Umar ibn Al-Khattāb (R.A)2026-07-16T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-15“All the good are friends of one another.” — Zeno of Citium2026-07-15T00:00:00+00:00Zeno of CitiumAll the good are friends of one another. — Zeno of Citium2026-07-15T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-14“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” — Abraham Lincoln2026-07-14T00:00:00+00:00Abraham LincolnBe sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. — Abraham Lincoln2026-07-14T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-13“There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.” — Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A)2026-07-13T00:00:00+00:00Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A)There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence. — Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A)2026-07-13T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-12“Human beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana2026-07-12T00:00:00+00:00Mokokoma MokhonoanaHuman beings are makers, usually of a mountain out of a molehill. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana2026-07-12T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-11“The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.” — Aesop2026-07-11T00:00:00+00:00AesopThe injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. — Aesop2026-07-11T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-10“The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.” — Winston Churchill2026-07-10T00:00:00+00:00Winston ChurchillThe element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians. — Winston Churchill2026-07-10T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-09“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2026-07-09T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-08“Sadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life.” — Byron Pulsifer2026-07-08T00:00:00+00:00Byron PulsiferSadness may be part of life but there is no need to let it dominate your entire life. — Byron Pulsifer2026-07-08T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-07“The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” — Benjamin Franklin2026-07-07T00:00:00+00:00Benjamin FranklinThe absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin2026-07-07T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-06“Our greatest glory is not in never failing but rising everytime we fall.” — Confucius2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00ConfuciusOur greatest glory is not in never failing but rising everytime we fall. — Confucius2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-05“Fame always goes with the principles.” — Baltasar Gracián2026-07-05T00:00:00+00:00Baltasar GraciánFame always goes with the principles. — Baltasar Gracián2026-07-05T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-04“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.” — Ayn Rand2026-07-04T00:00:00+00:00Ayn RandThroughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. — Ayn Rand2026-07-04T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-03“Tolerance starts when you practise it.” — Proverb2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00ProverbTolerance starts when you practise it. — Proverb2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-02“The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟” — Seneca2026-07-02T00:00:00+00:00SenecaThe man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet, will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing. The story is told that someone complained to Socrates that travelling abroad had never done him any good and received the reply: "What else can you expect, seeing that you always take yourself along with you when you go abroad?‟ — Seneca2026-07-02T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-07-01“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” — Rumi2026-07-01T00:00:00+00:00RumiI want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. — Rumi2026-07-01T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-06-30“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWar is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-06-29“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep” — Sokrates2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00SokratesIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep — Sokrates2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-06-28“Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.” — Danish Proverb2026-06-28T00:00:00+00:00Danish ProverbEvery person is a fool in somebody's opinion. — Danish Proverb2026-06-28T00:00:00+00:00https://gist.github.com/trvny/167d2271e3cf7d21e118aa7d906a7d2c#2026-06-27“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.” — Bertrand Russell2026-06-27T00:00:00+00:00Bertrand RussellReligions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. — Bertrand Russell2026-06-27T00:00:00+00:00