He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Tag: Quote of the Day
07JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
06JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
Struggling to be brief I become obscure.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
05JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
04JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
03JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!
O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air!
The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!
Gerard Manley Hopkins
02JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
“You oughtn’t to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.”
Anthony Hope
01JUL2022 – Quote of the Day
“He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.”
Anthony Hope
30JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
“Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible”
Anthony Hope
29JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
‘Bourgeois’, I observed, `is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.
Anthony Hope