“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
Leo Tolstoy
This one is clever and true.
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
15JUNE2018 – Quote of the Day
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
Leo Tolstoy
14JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.”
Leo Tolstoy
This skill has always escaped me.
13JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
12JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Still true and getting truer every day.
11JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
George Orwell
All of 1984 encapsulated in one image.
10JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
“A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.”
George Orwell
Both sides know this.
9JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell
Thus the reason they wanted control of the schools.
8JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell
The idiots in Antifa come to mind.
7JUN2018 – Quote of the Day
George Orwell Week
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.
George Orwell
And being a Communist he knew whereof he spoke.