Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
Tag: Quote of the Day
05JAN2021 – Quote of the Day
To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
Samuel Butler
04JAN2021 – Quote of the Day
A lawyer’s dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his own property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
03JAN2021 – Quote of the Day
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler
02JAN2021 – Quote of the Day
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
01JAN2021 – Quote of the Day
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Edmund Burke
31DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
30DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
Liberty, if I understand it at all, is a general principle, and the clear right of all the subjects within the realm, or of none. … the true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
29DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund Burke
28DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke