What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
13OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.
Napoleon Bonaparte
12OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
11OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
10OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned — it cannot be self-respect if it’s not earned — and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.
Charles Alan Murray
09OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles Alan Murray
08OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.
Charles Alan Murray
07OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities
John Lothrop Motley
06OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
Sound, jocund strains; on pipe and viol sound,
Young voices sing;
Wreathe every door with snow-white garlands round,
For lo! ’tis Spring!
Winter has passed with its sad funeral train,
And hope revives again.
Sir Lewis Morris
05OCT2024 – Quote of the Day
The wind that sighs before the dawn
Chases the gloom of night,
The curtains of the East are drawn,
And suddenly—’tis light.
Sir Lewis Morris