It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
20MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe
19MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
18MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And ’twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe
17MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Daniel Defoe
16MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur
15MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
Scrope Bedemore Davies
14MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been
To public feasts, where meet a public rout,—
Where they that are without would fain go in,
And they that are within would fain go out.
John Davies
13MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
De l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace et la Patrie sera sauvée!
Audacity, then again audacity, always audacity and the Fatherland will be saved!
Georges Danton
12MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
When I can’t talk sense, I talk metaphor.
John Philpot Curran