Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.
John of Salisbury
Tag: Quote of the Day
29JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
Bernard of Chartres used to say that we were like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and further than they, it is not due to our own clear eyes or tall bodies, but because we are raised on high and upborne by their gigantic bigness.
John of Salisbury
28JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
The brevity of our life, the dullness of our senses, the torpor of our indifference, the futility of our occupation, suffer us to know but little: and that little is soon shaken and then torn from the mind by that traitor to learning, that hostile and faithless stepmother to memory, oblivion.
John of Salisbury
27JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
26JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
25JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
24JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
23JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren’t respectable live beyond other people’s. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
22JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
But, good gracious, you’ve got to educate him first. You can’t expect a boy to be vicious till he’s been to a good school.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
21JUN2026 – Quote of the Day
I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she’s so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.
Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)