The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
22OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
21OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
20OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
19OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
When the People have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
18OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Beauty, thou art twice blessed; thou blessest the gazer and the possessor; often at once the effect and the cause of goodness! A sweet disposition—a lovely soul—an affectionate nature—will speak in the eyes—the lips—the brows—and become the cause of beauty. On the other hand, they who have a gift that commands love, a key that opens all hearts, are ordinarily inclined to look with happy eyes upon the world—to be cheerful and serene—to hope and to confide. There is more wisdom than the vulgar dream of in our admiration of a fair face.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
17OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Believe me that the happiest act of intellect, however lofty, is that which enables it to be cheerfully at home with the Real!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
16OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
It is not study alone that produces a writer; it is Intensity.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
15OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
There is an old age which has more youth of heart than youth itself!
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
14OCT2023 – Quote of the Day
Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common—inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton