Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede pœna claudo.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace,
has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
—Horace
Quote of the Day
Reply
Category Archives: Manners
Quote of the Day
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
—G. K. Chesterton
Quote of the Day
Quis nam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus. Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
—Horace
Quote of the Day
Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet. A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
—Quintus Curtius Rufus
Quote of the Day
‘Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.
—Benjamin Franklin
Quote of the Day
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
—C. S. Lewis
Quote of the Day
Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quote of the Day
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quote of the Day
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Quote of the Day
“Thou shalt not get found out” is not one of God’s commandments, and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
—Leonard Bacon
Quote of the Day
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
—Aristophanes
Quote of the Day
I don’t miss my youth. I’m glad I had one, but I wouldn’t like to start over.
—Umberto Eco
Quote of the Day
Nec ulla major pœna nequitiæ est, quam quod sibi et suis displicet. There is no greater punishment of wickedness than that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
—Seneca the Younger
Quote of the Day
There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.
—George Orwell
Quote of the Day
If you think you can, by slandering a woman make her love you, or by vilifying a man make him vote with you, go on and try it.
—Abraham Lincoln
Quote of the Day
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
—William Blake
Quote of the Day
I had no idea that such individuals exist outside of stories.
—John H. Watson, M.D.
Quote of the Day
Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest. My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
—Ovid
Quote of the Day
Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.
—Apollonius of Tyana
Quote of the Day
He who licks knives will soon cut his tongue.
—Ukrainian Proverb
Quote of the Day
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
—Robert E. Howard
Quote of the Day
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
—Helen Keller
Quote of the Day
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Quote of the Day
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan
Quote of the Day
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
—Oscar Wilde
