There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
Charles Dickens
Tag: Quote of the Day
14JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
Charles Dickens
13JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
12JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
Staircase wit.
Denis Diderot
(This phrase is a famous allusion to the witty remarks one thinks of when it is too late, as when one is leaving a meeting and going down the stairs.)
(The famous modern example of staircase wit is “jerk store.”)
11JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
“You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.”
Admiral George Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay
(hat tip to Bugs Bunny for his impression)
10JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.
Camille Desmoulins
09JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
Women always have some mental reservation.
Philippe Néricault Destouches
08JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
Drive the natural away, it returns at a gallop.
Philippe Néricault Destouches
07JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.
Philippe Néricault Destouches
06JUN2021 – Quote of the Day
For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin [sic] upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time.
Thomas De Quincey