Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke
Tag: Quote of the Day
16DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke
15DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
Since the House had been prorogued in the summer much work was done in France. The French had shewn themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground, their monarchy; their church; their nobility; their law; their revenue; their army; their navy; their commerce; their arts; and their manufactures.
Speech in the House of Commons (9 February 1790)
Edmund Burke
14DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions — Time!
George Villiers
13DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
The world’s a wood, in which all lose their way,
Though by a different path each goes astray.
George Villiers
12DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.
George Villiers
11DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
Jean de La Bruyère
10DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Jean de La Bruyère
09DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Bruyère
08DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one’s own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
Jean de La Bruyère