The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
John Ruskin
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
13MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
John Ruskin
12MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
11MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.
John Ruskin
10MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin
09MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
Was never eie did see that face,
Was never eare did heare that tong,
Was never minde did minde his grace,
That ever thought the travell long;
But eies and eares and ev’ry thought
Were with his sweete perfections caught.
Mathew Roydon
08MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
Death is parting,
‘Tis the last sad adieu ‘twixt soul and body.
Nicholas Rowe
07MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
Death is the privilege of human nature,
And Life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas Rowe
06MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
I think sir, since you care for the advice of an old man, sir, you will find it a very good practise, always to verify your references, sir!
Martin Joseph Routh
05MAY2026 – Quote of the Day
The supreme enjoyment is in satisfaction with oneself; it is in order to deserve this satisfaction that we are placed on earth and endowed with freedom.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau