It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
11NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
James Mackintosh
10NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
George MacDonald
09NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use. If you say that a beautiful thing is always interesting, I answer, that a beautiful thing is of the highest use. Is not the diamond that flashes all its colours into the heart of a poet as useful as the diamond with which the glazier divides the sheets of glass into panes for our windows?
George MacDonald
08NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Trust to God to weave your little thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.
George MacDonald
07NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.
George MacDonald
06NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
“In the midst of life we are in death,” said one; it is more true that in the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow — a word for that which cannot be — a negation, owing the very idea of itself to that which it would deny. But for life there could be no death. If God were not, there would not even be nothing. Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
George MacDonald
05NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
George MacDonald
04NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
NUTS!
Anthony McAuliffe
Context:
(Anthony McAuliffe (2 July 1898 – 11 August 1975) was the United States Army general who was the acting division commander of the 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, famous for his single-word reply of “Nuts!” in response to a German surrender ultimatum.)
03NOV2023 – Quote of the Day
It is odd that the last twenty-five years which have witnessed the greatest progress ever made in physical science—the greatest victories ever achieved by mind over matter—should have produced hardly a volume that will be remembered in 1900.
Thomas Babington Macaulay