PM Quote of the Day — J. W. Schopf

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. 

PM Quote of the Day — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame. 

PM Quote of the Day — Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. 

Update: Who exactly is this Benjamin “Frankling“?  Sorry for the typo…

PM Quote of the Day — Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. 

PM Quote of the Day — Galileo Galilei

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. 

PM Quote of the Day — Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it. 

PM Quote of the Day — George Canning

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend! 

PM Quote of the Day — Mark Twain

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Note that this quote is sometimes attributed to Blaise Pascal.

PM Quote of the Day — Jane Austen

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. 

PM Quote of the Day — Arnold Palmer

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.