Not too high, nor too low—is of all styles the best,
As the epics of Homer and Virgil attest.
Pierre de Ronsard
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
04MAR2026 – Quote of the Day
When you are very old, at evening, by candelight,
Sitting near the fire, spooling and spinning the wool,
You will say, in wonder, as you sing my verses,
“Ronsard praised me in the days when I was beautiful.”
Pierre de Ronsard
03MAR2026 – Quote of the Day
Gather the fleet flower of your youth,
Take ye your pleasure at the best;
Be merry ere your beauty flit,
For length of days will tarnish it
Like roses that were loveliest.
Pierre de Ronsard
02MAR2026 – Quote of the Day
The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.
Madame Roland
01MAR2026 – Quote of the Day
O Liberty, how many crimes are committed in thy name!
Madame Roland
28FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Then, never less alone than when alone.
Those that he loved so long and sees no more,
Loved and still loves,—not dead, but gone before,—
He gathers round him.
Samuel Rogers
27FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Go! you may call it madness, folly;
You shall not chase my gloom away!
There’s such a charm in melancholy
I would not if I could be gay.
Samuel Rogers
26FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.
Samuel Rogers
25FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
That very law which moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source,—
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.
Samuel Rogers
24FEB2026 – Quote of the Day
Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.
François de La Rochefoucauld