Truth dies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
They make truth serve as a stalking-horse to error.
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
Tag: Quote of the Day
26NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
I have read somewhere or other — in Dionysius of
Halicarnassus, I think — that History is Philosophy
teaching by examples.
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
25NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
24NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke
23NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
The great desire of my life is to amuse somebody. I had rather be able to set the multiplication table to some lively tune than to have been the author of it.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
22NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Genuine grief is like penitence, not clamorous but subdued; sorrow from the house-tops and penitence in a market place shows more ambition than piety.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
21NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
I don’t suppose there has ever lived a man without a single virtue. Even Judas Iscariot “went and hanged himself.”
Henry Wheeler Shaw
20NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust
Henry Wheeler Shaw
19NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Love is like the measles; we can’t have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
18NOV2020 – Quote of the Day
Most people when they come to you for advice come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Henry Wheeler Shaw