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Quote of the Day November 10, 2026

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

William James · Experience

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Elizabeth Gilbert

What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.

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Herman Melville

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

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Don Marquis

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

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William Ralph Inge

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

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Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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James Wolcott

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

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Garrison Keillor

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

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Phoebe Cary

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

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