“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
Vince Lombardi
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
25JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
“Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there’s no honey without bees.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
24JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
Benjamin Franklin
As simple as that.
23JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”
Marcus Aurelius
The emperor Marcus Aurelius is for me one of the most compelling character in history, The philosopher/warrior/emperor single-handedly holding the exhausted empire together by stoic will until his old body gives out. And after him the deluge.
22JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
“Carpe diem! Seize the day! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
Horace
Seriously good advice for all of us. Especially for me during the second half of my stay-cation.
21JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Let’s call this W. C. Fields Week
“Women are like elephants. I like to look at ’em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.”
W. C. Fields
20JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Let’s call this W. C. Fields Week
“It is funnier to bend things than to break them.”
W. C. Fields
19JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Let’s call this W. C. Fields Week
“Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, “You can’t cheat an honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!”
W. C. Fields
18JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Let’s call this W. C. Fields Week
“No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we’ll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.”
W. C. Fields
17JUL2018 – Quote of the Day
Let’s call this W. C. Fields Week
“The work I’m doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature…no writers have been developed along the lines of my type of comedy and this is why I sometimes have differences with writers, supervisors and directors alike.”
W. C. Fields