My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Duke of Wellington
Tag: Quote of the Day
12NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Love guards the heart from the abyss.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
11NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
10NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Creativity is the firing of my soul.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
09NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed – all there is cold, cold as ice.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
08NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
07NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
06NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
05NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
04NOV2019 – Quote of the Day
A lady of 47 who has been married 27 years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: ‘Love is what you’ve been through with somebody’.
James Thurber