It’s disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships which are not decreed by Fate.
Homer
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
23DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
22DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.
Homer
21DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
Honore de Balzac
20DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse
19DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy’s Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day’s work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city’s reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.
P. G. Wodehouse
18DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, “So, you’re back from Moscow, eh?
P. G. Wodehouse
17DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
Oh, I don’t know, you know, don’t you know?
P. G. Wodehouse
16DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
P. G. Wodehouse
15DEC2019 – Quote of the Day
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
P. G. Wodehouse