The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good — in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
Robert Graves
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
15NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Ulysses S. Grant
14NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant
13NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however, that though such people make a great noise the masses are not like them.
Ulysses S. Grant
12NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
11NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
I don’t underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant
10NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.
Kenneth Grahame
09NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame
08NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
I’ve no doubt they’ve been telling you what a hero you were, and how you were bound to win, in the cause of right and justice, and so on; but let me tell you, I came down the street just now, and they were betting six to four on the dragon freely!”
“Six to four on the dragon!” murmured St. George sadly, resting his cheek on his hand. “This is an evil world, and sometimes I begin to think that all the wickedness in it is not entirely bottled up inside the dragons…”
Kenneth Grahame
07NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth Grahame