Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Alexander Pope
Tag: Quote of the Day
13AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed
Alexander Pope
12AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
A little Learning is a dang’rous Thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:
There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope
11AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
Alexander Pope
10AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Alexander Pope
09AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
After us the deluge.
Madame de Pompadour
08AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
John Pomfret
07AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
The Masque of the Red Death
And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Edgar Allan Poe
06AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness.
Edgar Allan Poe
05AUG2025 – Quote of the Day
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe