One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de La Bruyère
Tag: Quote of the Day
06DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de La Bruyère
05DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
We come too late to say anything which has not been said already.
Jean de La Bruyère
04DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Jean de La Bruyère
03DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet’s bombast!
Jean de La Bruyère
02DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
01DEC2020 – Quote of the Day
The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun!
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
30NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Marriage: A contract executed without any part performance.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
29NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
In my mind, he was guilty of no error, he was chargeable with no exaggeration, he was betrayed by his fancy into no metaphor, who once said, that all we see about us, Kings, Lords, and Commons, the whole machinery of the State, all the apparatus of the system, and its varied workings, end in simply bringing twelve good men into a box.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
28NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux