Do not put your work off till to-morrow and the day after; for a sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor one who puts off his work: industry makes work go well, but a man who puts off work is always at hand-grips with ruin.
Hesiod
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
04MAY2022 – Quote of the Day
Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.
Hesiod
03MAY2022 – Quote of the Day
There’s no place like home.
Hesiod
02MAY2022 – Quote of the Day
Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard.
Hesiod
01MAY2022 – Quote of the Day
Whoever avoids marriage and the sorrows that women cause, and will not wed, reaches deadly old age without anyone to tend his years.
Hesiod
30APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.
Hesiod
29APR2022 – Quote of the Day
He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things.
He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser man.
But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another’s wisdom, this is a useless man.
Hesiod
28APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick
27APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick
26APR2022 – Quote of the Day
Before battle was joined they say that someone from Trachis warned him how many Persians there were by saying that when they fired their bows, they hid the sun with the mass of arrows. Dianeces, so the story goes, was so dismissive of the Persian numbers that he calmly replied, “All to the good, my friend from Trachis. If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight.”
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC)