A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican,
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
But I’m damned if I see how the helican!
Dixon Lanier Merritt
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
28APR2024 – Quote of the Day
Italy is only a geographical expression.
Klemens von Metternich
27APR2024 – Quote of the Day
Among the causes of the tremendous confusion characterising present-day Europe is the transplantation of British institutions to the Continent where they are in complete contradiction to existing conditions, so that their application becomes either illusory or distorted. The so-called “British school” has been the cause of the French Revolution, and the consequences of this revolution, so anti-British in tendency, devastate Europe today. The concepts of freedom and order are so inseparable in the British mind that the last stable-boy would laugh in the face of the reformers if they appeared by preaching his freedom.
Klemens von Metternich
26APR2024 – Quote of the Day
I made history and therefore did not find time to write it.
Klemens von Metternich
25APR2024 – Quote of the Day
The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings.
Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
Owen Meredith
24APR2024 – Quote of the Day
You know
There are moments when silence, prolong’d and unbroken,
More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.
Owen Meredith
23APR2024 – Quote of the Day
Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.
Owen Meredith
22APR2024 – Quote of the Day
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Owen Meredith
21APR2024 – Quote of the Day
The well of true wit is truth itself.
George Meredith
20APR2024 – Quote of the Day
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith