It is comparatively easy to repent of the sins that we have committed, but to repent of those which we intend to commit, is asking too much of any man, nowadays.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
12NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sometime lay down in this world together for a few minutes, but when the lion comes to get up, the lamb will be missing.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
11NOV2020 – Veteran’s Day – Some Quotes For the Day
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
General George S. Patton
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Stonewall Jackson
Oh, it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ‘Tommy, go away’;
But it’s ‘Thank you, Mister Atkins’, when the band begins to play—
The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play,
Oh, it’s ‘Thank you, Mister Atkins,’ when the band begins to play.
Rudyard Kipling
11NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
10NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Few men think; yet all have opinions.
Bishop George Berkeley
09NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
That we have first rais’d a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see.
Bishop George Berkeley
08NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.
Bishop George Berkeley
07NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
In the pursuit of truth we must beware of being misled by terms which we do not rightly understand. That is the chief point. Almost all philosophers utter the caution; few observe it.
Bishop George Berkeley
06NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
(this is the origin of the famous “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”)
Doth the reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?
Bishop George Berkeley
05NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Our youth we can have but to-day,
We may always find time to grow old.
Bishop George Berkeley