Constitutions are intended to preserve practical and substantial rights, not to maintain theories.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
13JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
State interference is an evil, where it cannot be shown to be a good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
12JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
11JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don’t disparage envy but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
10JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
09JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
John Haynes Holmes
08JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation
James Hogg
07JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Science is the knowledge of Consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another: by which, out of that we can presently do, we know how to do something else when we will, or the like, another time:
Thomas Hobbes
06JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions.
Thomas Hobbes
05JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
The Value or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power…
And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.
Thomas Hobbes