I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can’t be won without.
Ernie Pyle
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
15OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
Men, you are all marksmen — don’t one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes.
Israel Putnam
14OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
Vicar’s wife: Now that you can’t get about and are not able to read, how do you manage to occupy the time?
Rustic man: Well, mum, sometimes I sits and thinks and then again I just sits.
Punch
13OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
I used your soap two years ago; since then I have used no other.
Punch
12OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
The army causes taxes, the taxes cause discontents, & the discontents are alleged to make an army necessary. Thus you go in a circle.
William Pulteney
11OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can’t be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.
Protagoras
10OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.
Protagoras
09OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
Protagoras
08OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.
Protagoras
07OCT2025 – Quote of the Day
There are two sides to every question.
Protagoras