How fast passes away the glory of this world.
Thomas à Kempis
(O quam cito transit gloria mundi.
Note: These words are used in the crowning of the pope.)
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
29MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement, especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously — I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
John Keats
28MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
John Keats
27MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats
26MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
25MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself.
John Keats
24MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
23 MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
If one wants to abolish the death penalty in this case, Messrs. murderers should take the first step: they do not kill, we will not kill them.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
22 MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
(The more things change, the more they stay the same.)
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
21MAR2023 – Quote of the Day
Virtue is the one and only nobility.
Juvenal