Love always makes those eloquent that have it.
Christopher Marlowe
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
18FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
It may be, sir, that the politicians of the United States are not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practise. When they are contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
William Learned Marcy
17FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
The last shirt your wise man will abandon is pride.
Juan De Mariana
16FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. “Let them eat cake!” (disputed)
Marie-Antoinette
15FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Edwin Markham
from the The Man with the Hoe
14FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
Put an end once for all to this discussion of what a good man should be, and be one.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
13FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
12FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
11FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
10FEB2024 – Quote of the Day
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus