Quotation of the Day
Herman Melville
A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities. Discuss
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small.
All things both great and small.
Homer
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
John Milton
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. Discuss
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
P. G. Wodehouse
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
Francis Bacon
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Aristotle
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
Louisa May Alcott
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Joseph Conrad
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. Discuss
Charlotte Bronte
Who has words at the right moment?
Agatha Christie
That was what, ultimately, war did to you. It was not the physical dangers—the mines at sea, the bombs from the air, the crisp ping of a rifle bullet as you drove over a desert track. No, it was the spiritual danger of learning how much easier life was if you ceased to think.
Sophocles
In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong.
Louisa May Alcott
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Miguel de Cervantes
They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. Discuss
Sophocles
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
Aristotle
The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
Joseph Conrad
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Louisa May Alcott
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Sophocles
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.









