There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
21MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
20MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
19MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
We must not draw general conclusions from certain particular principles, though, in the main, true ones. We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will therefore always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in the pursuit of it. No. We are complicated machines: and though we have one main-spring, that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometimes stop that motion.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
18MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
When every one is in the wrong, every one is in the right.
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée
17MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Harde is his herte that loveth nought
In Mey, whan al this mirth is wrought;
Geoffrey Chaucer
16MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
What is bettre than wisdom? Womman.
And what is bettre than a good womman? No-thing.
Geoffrey Chaucer
15MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
Nature, the vicar of the Almightie Lord.
Geoffrey Chaucer
14MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
How small man is on this little atom where he dies! But how great his intelligence! He knows when the face of the stars must be masked in darkness, when the comets will return after thousands of years, he who lasts only an instant! A microscopic insect lost in a fold of the heavenly robe, the orbs cannot hide from him a single one of their movements in the depth of space. What destinies will those stars, new to us, light? Is their revelation bound up with some new phase of humanity? You will know, race to be born; I know not, and I am departing.
François-René de Chateaubriand
13MAR2021 – Quote of the Day
My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.
François-René de Chateaubriand