Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.
William Congreve
Tag: Quote of the Day
25APR2021 – Quote of the Day
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!
Eliza Cook
24APR2021 – Quote of the Day
On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!
Eliza Cook
23APR2021 – Quote of the Day
Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.
Calvin Coolidge
22APR2021 – Quote of the Day
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
Calvin Coolidge
21APR2021 – Quote of the Day
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20APR2021 – Quote of the Day
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19APR2021 – Quote of the Day
The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18APR2021 – Quote of the Day
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or at the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
17APR2021 – Quote of the Day
A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins