“Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won’t want”
Anthony Hope
Tag: Quote of the Day
27JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Boys will be boys—And even that … wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anthony Hope
26JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
The law, so far as it depends on learning, is indeed, as it has been called, the government of the living by the dead. To a very considerable extent no doubt it is inevitable that the living should be so governed. The past gives us our vocabulary and fixes the limits of our imagination; we cannot get away from it. There is, too, a peculiar logical pleasure in making manifest the continuity between what we are doing and what has been done before. But the present has a right to govern itself so far as it can; and it ought always to be remembered that historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
25JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.
Richard Hooker
24JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
To fathers within their private families Nature hath given a supreme power; for which cause we see throughout the world even from the foundation thereof, all men have ever been taken as lords and lawful kings in their own houses. Howbeit over a whole grand multitude having no such dependency upon any one, and consisting of so many families as every politic society in the world doth, impossible it is that any should have complete lawful power, but by consent of men, or immediate appointment of God; because not having the natural superiority of fathers, their power must needs be either usurped, and then unlawful; or, if lawful, then either granted or consented unto by them over whom they exercise the same, or else given extraordinarily from God, unto whom all the world is subject.
Richard Hooker
23JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
It is an axiom of Nature that natural desire cannot utterly be frustrate.
Richard Hooker
22JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
21JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
20JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase “due process of law” there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
19JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Life is a roar of bargain and battle, but in the very heart of it there rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dull details into romance. It reminds us that our only but wholly adequate significance is as parts of the unimaginable whole. It suggests that even while living we are living to ends outside ourselves’
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.