Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
17SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
I’ve lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing Proofs I see of this Truth — That God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that except the Lord build the House they labor in vain who build it. I firmly believe this, — and I also believe that without his concurring Aid, we shall succeed in this political Building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our Projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a Reproach and Bye word down to future Ages.
Benjamin Franklin
16SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet’s Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!
(The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
Edward FitzGerald
15SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
(The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
Edward FitzGerald
14SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
(The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
Edward FitzGerald
13SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
Distinction without a difference.
Henry Fielding
12SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
Henry Fielding
11SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.
Henry Fielding
10SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
Henry Fielding
09SEP2021 – Quote of the Day
Enough is equal to a feast.
Henry Fielding