If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
31MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
30MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Injustice often arises also through chicanery, that is, through an over-subtle and even fraudulent construction of the law. This it is that gave rise to the now familiar saw, “More law, less justice.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
29MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
In a time of war, the law falls silent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
28MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
27MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
26MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
25MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
24MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
23MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield