When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
22NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
John Lothrop Motley
21NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
The finger of the atheists’ own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.
John Lothrop Motley
20NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
John Lothrop Motley
19NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Horatio Nelson
18NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Horatio Nelson
17NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Duke of Wellington
16NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
A great country cannot wage a little war.
Duke of Wellington
15NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Duke of Wellington
14NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
God deliver me from my friends! I’ll take care of my enemies myself.
Duke of Wellington