Life’s a pudding full of plums;
Care’s a canker that benumbs,
Wherefore waste our elocution
On impossible solution?
Life’s a pleasant institution,
Let us take it as it comes!
Sir William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert
Tag: Quote of the Day
21OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
As someday it may happen that a victim must be found
I’ve got a little list, I’ve got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground,
And who never would be missed—who never would be missed!
Sir William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert
20OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this and every country but his own.
Sir William Schwenck (W.S.) Gilbert
19OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings;
Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
Richard Gifford
18OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
17OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Edward Gibbon
16OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon
15OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
14OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, “here and now” without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself.
José Ortega y Gasset
13OCT2021 – Quote of the Day
If hard work is not another name for talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield