Who is allowed to sin, sins less.
We take no pleasure in permitted joys.
But what’s forbidden is more keenly sought.
Ovid
Tag: Quote of the Day
16MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
There is a god within us.
It is when he stirs us that our bosom warms ; it is
his impulse that sows the seeds of inspiration.
Ovid
15MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
We’re slow to believe what wounds us.
Ovid
14MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid
13MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
James Otis
12MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers, 5
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
Arthur O’Shaughnessy
11MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
The heat of the day is spent in reading or working, and about six or seven o’clock I walk out into a common that lies hard by the house, where a great many young wenches keep sheep and cows, and sit in the shade singing of ballads. I go to them and compare their voices and beauties to some ancient shepherdesses that I have read of, and find a vast difference there; but, trust me, I think these are as innocent as those could be. I talk to them, and find they want nothing to make them the happiest people in the world but the knowledge that they are so.
Dorothy Osborne
10MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
“Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
George Orwell
09MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
08MAR2025 – Quote of the Day
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed. Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
George Orwell