Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
Persius
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
10MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
Samuel Pepys
09MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.
Samuel Pepys
08MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Musique and women I cannot but give way to.
Samuel Pepys
07MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
William Penn
06MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.
William Penn
05MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
William Penn
04MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock
03MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
‘Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home;
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which sought through the world is ne’er met with elsewhere.
An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,
Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;
The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,
Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.
John Howard Payne
02MAY2025 – Quote of the Day
He was no coward, but it had suddenly struck him that the present was a very ill-chosen time for a row with his younger relative, however successful might be the issue. Such violence should not go unpunished, but vengeance is a dish that can be eaten cold.
James Payn