Quotes of Days Past

Advertisement

December 03, 2020

avatar
Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Future - Robots - Slavery
Share as Image

December 02, 2020

avatar
Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

Inventors don't have time for married life.
Inventing - Marriage
Share as Image

December 01, 2020

avatar
Aristotle

Philosopher

The quality of life is determined by its activities.
Activity - Existence - Life - Quality
Share as Image

November 30, 2020

avatar
Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.
Failing - Man
Share as Image

November 29, 2020

avatar
Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

A day spent helping no one but yourself is a day wasted.
Help - Selfishness
Share as Image

November 28, 2020

avatar
Abraham Lincoln

Former President of the United States

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Discovery - Reading
Share as Image

November 27, 2020

avatar
John Milton

Poet, Civil Servant

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
Censorship - Reason
Share as Image

November 26, 2020

avatar
Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
Plan - Work
Share as Image

November 25, 2020

avatar
Francis Bacon

Philosopher

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Justice - Law - Man - Revenge
Share as Image

November 24, 2020

avatar
Montesquieu

Judge, Philosopher

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
Achievement - Dependence - Knowledge - Success - Time
Share as Image

November 23, 2020

avatar
Benjamin Disraeli

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.
Reading
Share as Image

November 22, 2020

avatar
Allen Ginsberg

Poet

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.
Poetry
Share as Image

November 21, 2020

avatar
Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Countries - Home - Strength - Woman
Share as Image

November 20, 2020

avatar
Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

Mary is more important than the apostles.
Apostle - Bible
Share as Image

November 19, 2020

avatar
H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Explanation - Knowledge
Share as Image

November 18, 2020

avatar
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

We reject any idea that one race of people is in any way better than another.
Equality - Inequality - Reject
Share as Image

November 17, 2020

avatar
Benjamin Franklin

Polymath, Founding Father of the United States

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
Mortality
Share as Image

November 16, 2020

avatar
Francis Bacon

Philosopher

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.
Enemy - Revenge - Transgression
Share as Image

November 15, 2020

avatar
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Sleeping
Share as Image

November 14, 2020

avatar
Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone.
Failing - Illusion - Mistake - Perception - Sometimes
Share as Image

Loading quotes...

End of content

No more content available.