Here profits not
To tell the whole truth with clear face unveiled.
Often is man’s best wisdom to be silent.
Pindar
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
30MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Know thyself and stay true to that understanding
Pindar
29MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Creatures of a day! What is a man?
What is he not? A dream of a shadow
Is our mortal being. But when there comes to men
A gleam of splendour given of Heaven,
Then rests on them a light of glory
And blessèd are their days.
Pindar
28MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
War is sweet to them that know it not.
but the warrior’s heart quakes at its approach
Pindar
27MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers
Wendell Phillips
26MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.
Stephen Phillips
25MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Thrice happy time,
Best portion of the various year, in which
Nature rejoiceth, smiling on her works
Lovely, to full perception wrought!
John Philips
24MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Timely blossom, Infant fair,
Fondling of a happy pair.
And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
This picture, once, resembled thee.
Wearied then and glad of rest,
Like the linnet in the nest.
Ambrose Philips
23MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Χαίρετε, νικῶμεν.
Joy to you, we’ve won.
Pheidippides
Athenian courier (hemerodrome) who delivered news of the allied Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon to the Athenian magistrates, dying immediately thereafter.
22MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Don’t cheer boys; those poor devils are dying.
John Woodward Philip