Category: Quote of the Day

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. Discuss

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul. Discuss

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. Discuss

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Discuss

Death … goes faster than the wind, and he never brings back what he takes. Discuss

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. Discuss

It would be better to give up the notion of writing until you are better prepared … You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say. Discuss

One of the new things people began to find out in the last century was that thoughts—just mere thoughts—are as powerful as electric batteries—as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. Discuss

A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart. Discuss

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood. Discuss