Life was not so much “one damn thing after another” as “one damn thing over and over”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Tag: Quote of the Day
22MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
21MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.
Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace,
And lay them prone upon the earth and cease
To ponder on themselves, the while they stare
At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
20MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
19MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
As there were black swans, though civilized people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them…The uniform experience, therefore, of the inhabitants of the known world, agreeing in a common result, without one known instance of deviation from that result, is not always sufficient to establish a general conclusion.
John Stuart Mill
18MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
John Stuart Mill
17MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
16MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
The worst comes to the worst.
Thomas Middleton
15MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
He who loves the law dies either mad or poor.
Thomas Middleton
14MAY2024 – Quote of the Day
The better day, the better deed.
Thomas Middleton