The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n.
John Milton
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
28MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
A. A. Milne
27MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
A. A. Milne
26MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
Instead of it (World War I) being a war to end wars – it (the Paris Peace Conference) is a Peace to end Peace.
Alfred Milner
25MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the consequences.
Alfred Milner
24MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
…the impracticability of governing natives, who, at best, are children, needing and appreciating just paternal government, on the same principles as apply to the government of full-grown men.
Alfred Milner
23MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
Life was not so much “one damn thing after another” as “one damn thing over and over”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
21MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
20MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay