You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
04JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
03JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Gerard Manley Hopkins
02JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
“You oughtn’t to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.”
Anthony Hope
01JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
“He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.”
Anthony Hope
30JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
“Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible”
Anthony Hope
29JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
‘Bourgeois’, I observed, `is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.
Anthony Hope
28JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
“Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want”
Anthony Hope
27JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Boys will be boys—And even that … wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anthony Hope
26JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been called, the government of the living by the dead. To a very considerable extent no doubt it is inevitable that the living should be so governed. The past gives us our vocabulary and fixes the limits of our imagination; we cannot get away from it. There is, too, a peculiar logical pleasure in making manifest the continuity between what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.