Lost – yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
10JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
Labor is itself a pleasure.
Marcus Manilius
09JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind. The remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open.
Marcus Manilius
08JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
We are born but to die.
Marcus Manilius
07JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
Every one is in a small way the image of God.
Marcus Manilius
06JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
Who can believe that all these mighty works
Have grown, unaided by the hand of God,
From small beginnings? that the law is blind
by which the world was made?
Marcus Manilius
05JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover new truths, than by passively receiving the impressions of other men’s ideas.
Thomas Robert Malthus
04JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
Thomas Robert Malthus
03JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.
Thomas Robert Malthus
02JAN2024 – Quote of the Day
It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
Thomas Robert Malthus