This narrow isthmus ‘twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future,—two eternities!
Thomas Moore
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
13SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
The Last Rose of Summer
‘Tis the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rose-bud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes
Or give sigh for sigh!
I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one.
To pine on the stem;
Since the lovely are sleeping,
Go, sleep thou with them;
Thus kindly I scatter
Thy leaves o’er the bed,
Where thy mates of the garden
Lie scentless and dead.
So soon may I follow,
When friendships decay,
And from love’s shining circle
The gems drop away!
When true hearts lie withered,
And fond ones are flown,
Oh! who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?
Thomas Moore
12SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.
George Moore
11SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his.
George Moore
10SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
George Moore
09SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore
08SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
All reformers are bachelors.
George Moore
07SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.
George Moore
06SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
Love — but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and mamma between eleven and twelve. Love is aspiration: transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife — you know all about her — who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream?
George Moore
05SEP2024 – Quote of the Day
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Moore