No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus
Tag: Quote of the Day
24JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.
Plautus
23JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
A word to the wise is enough.
Plautus
22JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
But ne’ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block’d up, it has secure some other outlet.
Plautus
21JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Plautus
20JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing.
Plautus
19JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
…the madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings…
Plato
18JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
Pleasure, a most mighty lure to evil.
Plato
17JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
Moreover, there is a victory and defeat—the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats—which each man gains or sustains at the hands, not of another, but of himself; this shows that there is a war against ourselves going on within every one of us.
Plato
16JUN2025 – Quote of the Day
No one should be discouraged, Theaetetus, who can make constant progress, even though it be slow.
Plato