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
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
06NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
There is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of ‘em, it doesn’t matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you’ve done it there’s always something else to do.
Kenneth Grahame
05NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
“And the song that the poet fashions,
And the love-bird’s musical strain,
Are jumbles of animal passions,
Refined by animal pain.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon
04NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
“Mere pluck, though not in the least sublime,
Is wiser than blank dismay.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon
03NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
Question not, but live and labour
Till yon goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbour,
Seeking help from none;
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone:
KINDNESS in another’s trouble.
COURAGE in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
02NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
To the last moment of his breath
On hope the wretch relies;
And e’en the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.
Hope, like the gleaming taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
01NOV2021 – Quote of the Day
For he who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is in battle slain
Can never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith
31OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
Silence gives consent.
Oliver Goldsmith
30OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith
29OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
For just experience tells; in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.
Oliver Goldsmith