This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker
Tag: Quote of the Day
25MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Canst drink the waters of the crispèd spring?
O sweet content!
Swim’st thou in wealth, yet sink’st in thine own tears?
O punishment!
Then he that patiently want’s burden bears,
No burden bears, but is a king, a king!
O sweet content! O sweet, O sweet content!
Work apace, apace, apace, apace;
Honest labour bears a lovely face;
Then hey nonny nonny—hey nonny nonny!
Thomas Dekker
24MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
ART thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
O sweet content!
Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex’d?
O punishment!
Dost thou laugh to see how fools are vex’d
To add to golden numbers golden numbers?
O sweet content! O sweet, O sweet content!
Work apace, apace, apace, apace;
Honest labour bears a lovely face;
Then hey nonny nonny—hey nonny nonny!
Thomas Dekker
23MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.
Thomas Dekker
22MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
When kings the sword of justice first lay down,
They are no kings, though they possess the crown.
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Daniel Defoe
21MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe
20MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe
19MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe
18MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;
And ’twill be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
Daniel Defoe
17MAY2021 – Quote of the Day
Now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.
Daniel Defoe