| 01/12/31: |
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. - Charles Sumner, Oration on the True Grandeur of Nations |
| 01/12/30: |
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. III, v. 17) |
| 01/12/29: |
You think you've lost your horse? Who knows, he may bring a whole herd back to you someday. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 01/12/28: |
The love of money grows as money grows. - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal) |
| 01/12/27: |
If it is worth taking, it is worth asking for. - Proverb (Gaelic) |
| 01/12/26: |
To die will be an awfully big adventure. - Sir James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan |
| 01/12/25: |
Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. - Sir George Alexander Macfarren, From a Fragment (before 1580) |
| 01/12/24: |
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. - Francis Pharcellus Church, in a editorial, in the "New York Sun" |
| 01/12/23: |
Married life without children is as the day deprived of the sun's rays. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 01/12/22: |
In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy. - Proverb (Legal) |
| 01/12/21: |
Winter is summer's heir. - Proverb (Latin) |
| 01/12/20: |
Biting and scratching is Scots folk's wooing. - Proverb (British) |
| 01/12/19: |
The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime. - Proverb |
| 01/12/18: |
If ye do wrang, mak amends. - Proverb |
| 01/12/17: |
Eating and scratching want but a beginning. - Proverb (Romanian) |
| 01/12/16: |
No one is listening until you make a mistake. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/12/15: |
Movables follow the person. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 522) |
| 01/12/14: |
Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich. - Proverb (Scottish) |
| 01/12/13: |
In whatever thing one offends, in that is he rightfully to be punished. - Legal Maxim, Wingate's Maxims (204, max. 58) |
| 01/12/12: |
Do not think that years leave us and find us the same! - Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith"), Lucile (pt. II, canto II, st. 3) |
| 01/12/11: |
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scandal in Bohemia |
| 01/12/10: |
If you always give, you will always have. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 01/12/09: |
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Proverb (Malayan) |
| 01/12/08: |
Short boughs, long vintage. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/12/07: |
Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise. - Proverb (Welsh) |
| 01/12/06: |
Guilt makes equal those whom it stains. - Legal Maxim |
| 01/12/05: |
Who loves me will love my dog also. [Fr., Que me amat, amet et canem meum.] - St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermo Primus |
| 01/12/04: |
Finagle's Creed: Science is true. Don't be misled by facts. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/12/03: |
Confession is the first step to repentance. - Proverb (English) |
| 01/12/02: |
Falcons don't fly after cage-birds. - Proverb (Darkovan) |
| 01/12/01: |
In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. - Alexander Pope, Dunciad (bk. I, l. 77) |
| 01/11/30: |
They that are booted are not alwaies ready. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/11/29: |
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. [Lat., Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira (II, 32) |
| 01/11/28: |
Keep close to the shore: let others venture on the deep. [Lat., Litus ama: . . . altum alii teneant.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), Aeneid (V, 163) |
| 01/11/27: |
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXXI, v. 10) |
| 01/11/26: |
Silence is the voice of complicity. - Proverb |
| 01/11/25: |
The noblest mind the best contentment has. - Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene (bk. I, canto I, st. 35) |
| 01/11/24: |
There is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich. - Proverb (French) |
| 01/11/23: |
There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave. - Proverb (Irish) |
| 01/11/22: |
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 01/11/21: |
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/11/20: |
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. - Proverb (Persian) |
| 01/11/19: |
Thou canst mould him into any shape like soft clay. [Lat., Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (II, 2, 8) |
| 01/11/18: |
A benefit is not conferred on one who is unwilling to receive it. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 699) |
| 01/11/17: |
A caske and an ill custome must be broken. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/11/16: |
The lazy man who goes to borrow a spade says, "I hope I will not find one." - Proverb (Madagasy) |
| 01/11/15: |
Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/11/14: |
The common soldier's blood makes the general great. - Proverb (Italian) |
| 01/11/13: |
You never want the one you can afford. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/11/12: |
If something is confidential, it will be left in the copier machine. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/11/11: |
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. - Sir Winston Churchill |
| 01/11/10: |
Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. - Epictetus |
| 01/11/09: |
To deceive ones selfe is very easie. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/11/08: |
It's not good fishing before the net. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/11/07: |
A canoe does not know who is king. When it turns over, everyone gets wet. - Proverb (Madagasy) |
| 01/11/06: |
To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb. - Nicholas Breton, Court and County (p. 183) (1618 edition) |
| 01/11/05: |
Talk is cheap but it takes money to buy whiskey. - Proverb (American) |
| 01/11/04: |
This business will never hold water. - Colley Cibber, She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not (act IV) |
| 01/11/03: |
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought. - Albert Einstein |
| 01/11/02: |
To labor is to pray. [Lat., Laborare est orare.] - Motto, of the Benedictines |
| 01/11/01: |
Gentle in manner, firm in reality. [Lat., Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.] - Claudio Aquaviva, Industrioe ad Curandos Animoe Morbos |
| 01/10/31: |
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 17) |
| 01/10/30: |
While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) |
| 01/10/29: |
Abuse is like a god that destroys his master. - Proverb (Hawaiian) |
| 01/10/28: |
I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens), Tramp Abroad (ch. XX) |
| 01/10/27: |
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/10/26: |
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana, The Life of Reason (vol. 1, ch. 12) |
| 01/10/25: |
A trip-hammer, with Aeolian attachment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, of Carlyle, after meeting him |
| 01/10/24: |
The consequence of a consequence exists not. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Maxims |
| 01/10/23: |
A carpenter's known by his chips. - Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue II) |
| 01/10/22: |
Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.] - Tomas de Yriarte [Iriarte], Fables (XXVII) |
| 01/10/21: |
A good heart cannot lye. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/10/20: |
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them. - Proverb (Japanese) |
| 01/10/19: |
He that sowes trusts in God. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/10/18: |
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/10/17: |
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. - Albert Einstein |
| 01/10/16: |
A rolling stone gathers no moss. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/10/15: |
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. - Bible, Isaiah (ch. IX, v. 15) |
| 01/10/14: |
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. - Kenneth Chang |
| 01/10/13: |
The best proof of love is trust. - Joyce Brothers |
| 01/10/12: |
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings |
| 01/10/11: |
To bee beloved is above all bargaines. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/10/10: |
We must consult Brother Jonathon. - George Washington, in reference to his secretary and Aide-de-camp, Col. Jonathon Trumbull |
| 01/10/09: |
Cities seldome change Religion only. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/10/08: |
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 01/10/07: |
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens), Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 19) |
| 01/10/06: |
Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. - Robert Lloyd, The Actor (l. 265) |
| 01/10/05: |
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXV, v. 17) |
| 01/10/04: |
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/10/03: |
A soft answer turneth away wrath. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 1) |
| 01/10/02: |
The Devill is not alwaies at one doore. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/10/01: |
And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. - John Greenleaf Whittier, Snow-bound |
| 01/09/30: |
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii) |
| 01/09/29: |
Noble houskeepers neede no dores. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/09/28: |
Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world. - Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds (pt. II, ch. IX) |
| 01/09/27: |
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/09/26: |
Computer Programming II, Law of: Any given program costs more and takes longer. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/09/25: |
Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves. - Didactus Stella, Lucan (vol. II, 10) |
| 01/09/24: |
Pro ecclesia et patria [For church and country] - Motto, of Trinity College |
| 01/09/23: |
Wake up America. - Major Augustus P. Gardner, Speech |
| 01/09/22: |
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. - Dr. John Donne, Elegies--The Autumnal |
| 01/09/21: |
I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. - George Walker Bush, to rescue workers at the destruction of New York's World Trade Center |
| 01/09/20: |
Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction. - George Walker Bush, on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center |
| 01/09/19: |
This act will not stand. We will find those who did it. We will smoke them out of their holes. We'll get them running and bring them to justice. - George Walker Bush, on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center |
| 01/09/18: |
This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. - George Walker Bush, on the destruction of New York's World trade Center |
| 01/09/17: |
Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized. - George Walker Bush, on the destruction of New York's World Trade Center |
| 01/09/16: |
In the construction of agreements words are interpreted against the person using them. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 599) |
| 01/09/15: |
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison |
| 01/09/14: |
A court has nothing to do with what is not before it. - Legal Maxim, Bacon's Maxims |
| 01/09/13: |
He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/09/12: |
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. - Edmund Waller, Epistle to Mr. Killegrew |
| 01/09/11: |
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. - Edward R. Murrow, of Joseph McCarthy on a television broadcast |
| 01/09/10: |
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/09/09: |
Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with. - Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle |
| 01/09/08: |
Age has now Stamped with its signet that ingenuous brow. - Samuel Rogers, Human Life |
| 01/09/07: |
We are never deceived. We deceive ourselves. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 01/09/06: |
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran, The Vision |
| 01/09/05: |
Craft against craft makes no living. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/09/04: |
O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid! - Sir Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto II, st. 10) |
| 01/09/03: |
An artist is his own fault. - John O'Hara, The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald (introduction) |
| 01/09/02: |
Nature drawes more then ten teemes. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/09/01: |
O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter. - George Arnold, September Days |
| 01/08/31: |
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. - Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America--Works (vol. II) |
| 01/08/30: |
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan, On Being a Real Person (ch. 10) |
| 01/08/29: |
For all we know Of what the Blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. - Edmund Waller, While I Listen to Thy Voice (st. 2), a song, quoted by Wordsworth |
| 01/08/28: |
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/08/27: |
He that lends, gives. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/08/26: |
Wine-Counsels seldome prosper. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/08/25: |
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. - Arthur C. Clarke |
| 01/08/24: |
The book you spent $20.95 for today will come out in paperback tomorrow. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/08/23: |
Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/08/22: |
He bids fair to grow wise who has discovered that he is not so. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/08/21: |
I think if bearded Americans are looking for a voice, he is now ready to serve them. - Mike Murphy, on the newly hirsute Al Gore's re-emergence into public life |
| 01/08/20: |
If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have. - Gerald Rudolph Ford |
| 01/08/19: |
When a dog is a drowning, everyone offers him drink. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/08/18: |
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. - William Congreve, Old Bachelor (act II, 2) |
| 01/08/17: |
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 7, 98) |
| 01/08/16: |
God is subtle, but he is not malicious. [Ger., Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht.] - Albert Einstein, inscribed in Fine Hall at Princeton University |
| 01/08/15: |
A good prayer is master of anothers purse. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/08/14: |
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. - Aldous Huxley |
| 01/08/13: |
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything. - Anonymous |
| 01/08/12: |
Freeman's Fourth Commentary on Ginsberg's Theorem: Mysticism is based on the assumption that you can quit the game. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/08/11: |
True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims and Moral Sentences (no. 262) |
| 01/08/10: |
Murphy's Law of Combat 18: When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the enemy. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/08/09: |
The right line is always preferred to the collateral. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 529) |
| 01/08/08: |
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Philippicoe (IX, 5) |
| 01/08/07: |
Ill gotten is ill spent. [Lat., Male partum male disperit.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Paenalus (IV, 2, 22) |
| 01/08/06: |
To do two things at once is to do neither. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/08/05: |
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. - Ann Landers |
| 01/08/04: |
He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene. - Andrew Marvell, Horatian Ode--Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland |
| 01/08/03: |
Patience provoked often turns to fury. [Lat., Furor fit laesa saepius patentia.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims (178) |
| 01/08/02: |
Revolutions never occur in mathematics. - Michael Crowe, Historia Mathematica |
| 01/08/01: |
In the parching August wind, Cornfields bow the head, Sheltered in round valley depths, On low hills outspread. - Christina G. Rossetti, A Year's Windfalls |
| 01/07/31: |
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius |
| 01/07/30: |
Whatever is added to demonstrate anything already sufficiently demonstrated is surplusage. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 630) |
| 01/07/29: |
To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (V, 2) |
| 01/07/28: |
Quality assurance doesn't. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/07/27: |
Take care not to begin anything of which you may repent. [Lat., Cave ne quidquam incipias, quod post poeniteat.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/07/26: |
Law favoreth diligence, and therefore, hateth folly and negligence. - Legal Maxim, Wingate's Maxims (p. 665, max. 72) |
| 01/07/25: |
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time. - Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech |
| 01/07/24: |
Aut disce aut discede [Either learn or leave] - Motto, of Winchester College |
| 01/07/23: |
The law admits no proof against that which it presumes. - Legal Maxim, Lofft (573) |
| 01/07/22: |
Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/21: |
The filth under the white snow, the sunne discovers. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/20: |
Ratification is equivalent to express command. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 867) |
| 01/07/19: |
Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/18: |
It is well to moor your bark with two anchors. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims (119) |
| 01/07/17: |
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/07/16: |
Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (II, 8) |
| 01/07/15: |
To build castles in Spain. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/14: |
An arch never sleeps. - James Fergusson, History of Indian and Eastern Architecture (p. 210) |
| 01/07/13: |
Murphy's Law of Combat 9: Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/07/12: |
Who eates his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/11: |
Chisholm's First Corollary to Murphy's Second Law: When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/07/10: |
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. - John Dewey |
| 01/07/09: |
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/08: |
My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escuriall. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/07: |
Good & quickly seldome meete. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/06: |
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/07/05: |
He that is afraid of leaves, goes not to the wood. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/04: |
Independence now: and independence forever. - Daniel Webster, Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson |
| 01/07/03: |
The great would have none great and the little all little. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/07/02: |
Poison is drunk out of gold. [Lat., Venenum in auro bibtur.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Thyestes (III, 453) |
| 01/07/01: |
The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July. - Francis Thompson, A Corymbus for Autumn (st. 3) |
| 01/06/30: |
What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone. - Matthew Arnold, Growing Old |
| 01/06/29: |
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/06/28: |
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/06/27: |
When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. - Proverb (Ethiopian) |
| 01/06/26: |
A green old age, unconscious of decays, That proves the hero born in better days. - Homer, Iliad (bk. XXIII, l. 925) (Pope's translation) |
| 01/06/25: |
A derogatory clause does not impede things from being dissolved by the same power by which they are created. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 27) |
| 01/06/24: |
Don't fall before you're pushed. - Proverb (English) |
| 01/06/23: |
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. - Thomas Clayton Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel (pt. I, ch. 1) |
| 01/06/22: |
Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/06/21: |
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 183) |
| 01/06/20: |
We cry for mercy to the next amusement, The next amusement mortgages our fields. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 131) |
| 01/06/19: |
The hardness of the butter is in direct proportion to the softness of the bread. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/06/18: |
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge. - Confucius, Analects (bk. II, ch. XVII) |
| 01/06/17: |
A trust is an obligation of conscience of one to the will of another. - Francis Bacon |
| 01/06/16: |
Keyes Rule of Misquotation Axiom 2: Famous quotes need famous mouths. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/06/15: |
Fraud is not purged by circuity. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 228) |
| 01/06/14: |
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage. - Proverb (Danish) |
| 01/06/13: |
Montgomery's Maxim: If at first you don't succeed, read the manual. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/06/12: |
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/06/11: |
The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot. - William Hazlitt, Table Talk--On the Past and Future |
| 01/06/10: |
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 01/06/09: |
In every enterprise consider where you would come out. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/06/08: |
It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter. - Alfred Eisenstaedt |
| 01/06/07: |
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban, in a speech in London |
| 01/06/06: |
They love indeed who quake to say they love. - Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (LIV) |
| 01/06/05: |
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/06/04: |
Affectation is an awkward and forced Imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural. - John A. Locke, On Education (sec. 66, Affectation) |
| 01/06/03: |
Emersons' Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/06/02: |
A happy accident. - Madame de Stael, L'Allemagne (ch. XVI) |
| 01/06/01: |
Mihi cura futuri [My care is for the future] - Motto, of Hunter College |
| 01/05/31: |
When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead! - John Greenleaf Whittier, Ichabod (st. 8) |
| 01/05/30: |
Time rolls his ceaseless course. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto III, st. 1) |
| 01/05/29: |
If the old dog barke he gives counsell. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/05/28: |
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Sir Winston Churchill, in a speech in the House of Commons on the Battle of Britain |
| 01/05/27: |
Applied Confusion, Third Law of: After adding two weeks to the schedule for unexpected delays, add two more for the unexpected, unexpected delays. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/05/26: |
The fault is as great as hee that is faulty. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/05/25: |
Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/05/24: |
All the hours wound you, the last one kills. [Vulnerant omnia, ultima necat.] - Proverb (Latin) |
| 01/05/23: |
No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay. - Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto VI, st. 21) |
| 01/05/22: |
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. - Oscar Wilde |
| 01/05/21: |
The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/05/20: |
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 01/05/19: |
Many things have been introduced into the common law, with a view to the public good, which are inconsistent with sound reason. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 158) |
| 01/05/18: |
O, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at I, iii) |
| 01/05/17: |
The greatest man in history was the poorest. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Domestic Life |
| 01/05/16: |
Live together like brothers and do business like strangers. - Proverb (Arab) |
| 01/05/15: |
Righteousness exalteth a nation. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XIV, v. 34) |
| 01/05/14: |
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we would storm heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est: Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (I, 3, 37) |
| 01/05/13: |
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself. - Nancy Friday, My Mother, My Self (ch. 1) |
| 01/05/12: |
Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/05/11: |
His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims (286) |
| 01/05/10: |
Baldwin's Law: Instruments are easier to break than to fix. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/05/09: |
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. - Proverb (English) |
| 01/05/08: |
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. - Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest |
| 01/05/07: |
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. - Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode |
| 01/05/06: |
Adam was but human--this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it only because it was forbidden. - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens), Pudd'nhead Wilson (ch. 2) |
| 01/05/05: |
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see. - Proverb (Taoist) |
| 01/05/04: |
Keepe good men company, and you shall be of the number. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/05/03: |
Be happy while you're living, For you're a long time dead. - Proverb (Scottish) |
| 01/05/02: |
One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. - Proverb (Chinese) |
| 01/05/01: |
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. - William Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII |
| 01/04/30: |
I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't . . . My dear, I don't give a damn. - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (Rhett Butler at ch. 57) |
| 01/04/29: |
Law favoreth truth, faith, and certainty. - Legal Maxim, Wingate's Maxims (p. 604, max. 154) |
| 01/04/28: |
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. - Niels Henrik David Bohr |
| 01/04/27: |
Computer Programming X, Law of: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/04/26: |
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 01/04/25: |
God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! - William Blake, circa 1808, "Notes on Reynold's Discourses" |
| 01/04/24: |
Conway's Law: In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/04/23: |
Little pitchers have wide eares. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/22: |
A bastard can have no heir unless it be one lawfully begotten of his own body. - Legal Maxim, Trayner's Latin Maxims & Phrases (51) |
| 01/04/21: |
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground. - Proverb (Malayan) |
| 01/04/20: |
God oft hath a great share in a little house. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/19: |
The chiefe disease that raignes this yeare is folly. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/18: |
Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/04/17: |
Kamin's Second Law: Threat of capital controls accelerates marginal capital outflows. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/04/16: |
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? - Harold Pinter, The Homecoming (act 2, sc. 1) |
| 01/04/15: |
Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation. - Abram Stevens Hewitt, Democratic Platform of 1884 |
| 01/04/14: |
Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/13: |
Feare nothing but sinne. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/12: |
Terrible is the temptation to be good. - Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle |
| 01/04/11: |
H. L. Mencken's Law: For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/04/10: |
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/09: |
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few. [Lat., Paucite paucarum diffundere crimen in omnes.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria (III, 9) |
| 01/04/08: |
Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. - Proverb (Burmese) |
| 01/04/07: |
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/06: |
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/04/05: |
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty--a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. - Bertrand Russell, Philosophical Essays (no. 4) |
| 01/04/04: |
Go and wake up your cook. - Proverb (Arab) |
| 01/04/03: |
It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/04/02: |
Laws do not undertake to punish other than outward actions. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 311) |
| 01/04/01: |
Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers. - Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XXXIX) |
| 01/03/31: |
Man is the creature of circumstances. - Robert Owen, The Philanthropist |
| 01/03/30: |
The market is the best garden. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/29: |
A presumption will stand good until the contrary is proved. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 949) |
| 01/03/28: |
Arnold's First Law of Documentation: If it should exist, it doesn't. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/03/27: |
The way is an ill neighbour. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/26: |
Mony refused looseth its brightnesse. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/25: |
Better not to be at all Than not to be noble. - Lord Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (pt. II, l. 79) |
| 01/03/24: |
You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. - Proverb (Jewish) |
| 01/03/23: |
Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/22: |
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. - Plato |
| 01/03/21: |
All our pompe the earth covers. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/20: |
Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea. - Proverb (Russian) |
| 01/03/19: |
I did not come to Washington to be loved, and I have not been disappointed. - Phil Gramm |
| 01/03/18: |
Keyes Rule of Misquotation Corollary 2C: Comments made about someone might as well have been said by that person. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/03/17: |
Where there is love, there is pain. - Proverb (Spanish) |
| 01/03/16: |
A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXIX, v. 11) |
| 01/03/15: |
He that mockes a cripple, ought to be whole. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/15: |
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXII, v. 1) |
| 01/03/13: |
Who are a little wise the best fools be. - Dr. John Donne, The Triple Fool |
| 01/03/12: |
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? - Bible, Proverbs (ch. VI, v. 27) |
| 01/03/11: |
Architecture in general is frozen music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Philosophie der Kunst |
| 01/03/10: |
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/09: |
Corollary to the Fifth Law of Applied Terror: If you are given a take-home exam, you will forget where you live. - Law of Life and Nature |
| 01/03/08: |
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. IX, v. 11) |
| 01/03/07: |
A gentle heart is tyed with an easie thread. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/06: |
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/05: |
They are not considered to consent who commit a mistake. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 262) |
| 01/03/04: |
He who would have been heir to the father shall be heir to the son. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 517) |
| 01/03/03: |
One wrong does not justify another. - Legal Maxim, Broom's Legal Maxims (max. 395) |
| 01/03/02: |
The coveteous spends more then the liberall. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/03/01: |
Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch; Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing It is the wind of March. - William Wordsworth, Written in March |
| 01/02/28: |
You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims (968) |
| 01/02/27: |
There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/02/26: |
Equity never counteracts the laws. - Legal Maxim |
| 01/02/25: |
Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one. - George Henry Borrow, Lavengro (ch. 92) |
| 01/02/24: |
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Aleister Crowley, Book of the Law (l. 40) |
| 01/02/23: |
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. [Lat., Velle suuum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno.] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires (V, 53) |
| 01/02/22: |
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (Earl Lytton), Speech, in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill |
| 01/02/21: |
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it. - Terry Wogan, in the London "Observer" |
| 01/02/20: |
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings |
| 01/02/19: |
Science is organised knowledge. - Herbert Spencer, Education (ch. II) |
| 01/02/18: |
The highest power may be lost by misrule. [Lat., Male imperando summum imperium amittitur.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims |
| 01/02/17: |
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. [Lat., Quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hippolytus (CCCLXIII) |
| 01/02/16: |
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul. - Bessie Head, A Question of Power |
| 01/02/15: |
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/02/14: |
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. - Jelly Roll Morton, Mister Jelly Roll |
| 01/02/13: |
Fear always springs from ignorance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar |
| 01/02/12: |
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. - Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin (ch. 26) |
| 01/02/11: |
Badness of memory every one complains of, but nobody of the want of judgment. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Reflections and Moral Maxims (no. 463) |
| 01/02/10: |
Money makes the man. - Aristodemus |
| 01/02/09: |
What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. - Henry Ford, in the London "Observer" |
| 01/02/08: |
Only the little people pay taxes. - Leona Helmsley, in the "New York Times" |
| 01/02/07: |
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (Earl Lytton), Caxtoniana (essay XXVII) |
| 01/02/06: |
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands. - Joseph Addison, The Guardian (no. 166) |
| 01/02/05: |
Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. - Francis Bacon, Of Revenge |
| 01/02/04: |
Everyone has a talent, what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. - Erica Jong, The Craft of Poetry |
| 01/02/03: |
A picture is a poem without words. - Confucius, Anet. ad Her. (4, 28) |
| 01/02/02: |
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man. [Lat., Quemcumque miserum videris, hominem scias.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hercules Furens (463) |
| 01/02/01: |
February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/01/31: |
Honour is like a match, you can only use it once. - Marcel Pagnol, Marius (act 4, sc. 5) |
| 01/01/30: |
Silence is more eloquent than words. - Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship (lecture II) |
| 01/01/29: |
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas Audire miseri.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Hercules Oetoeus (754) |
| 01/01/28: |
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 5, 12) |
| 01/01/27: |
Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. - Socrates |
| 01/01/26: |
Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--The Opera |
| 01/01/25: |
Acting is pretending to be someone else. - Anna Paquin, in the London "Guardian" |
| 01/01/24: |
I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] - Louis XIV of France |
| 01/01/23: |
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold, Douglas Jerrold's Wit |
| 01/01/22: |
Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (ch. XXVIII) |
| 01/01/21: |
This is the law of the Yukon, that only the Strong shall survive; That surely the Weak shall perish, and only the Fit survive. - Robert William Service, Law of the Yukon |
| 01/01/20: |
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--First Series--History |
| 01/01/19: |
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality |
| 01/01/18: |
An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege. - Frederic R. Marvin, Companionship of Books (p. 318) |
| 01/01/17: |
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. - R.D. Laing, The Politics of Experience |
| 01/01/16: |
Man's the bad child of the universe. - James Oppenheim, Laughter |
| 01/01/15: |
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Alcove and Garden) |
| 01/01/14: |
Facts are stubborn things. - Alain Rene Le Sage, Gil Blas (bk. X, ch. I), (Smollet's translation) |
| 01/01/13: |
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. [Lat., Nimium risus pretium est, si probitatis impendio constat.] - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian), De Institutione Oratoria (VI, 3, 5) |
| 01/01/12: |
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. - Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus), Meditations (ch. IX, 9) |
| 01/01/11: |
All men are poets at heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Literary Ethics |
| 01/01/10: |
Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (XIII, 189) |
| 01/01/09: |
Words and feathers the wind carries away. - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum |
| 01/01/08: |
I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin. [Ger., Ich bin gewoht in der Munze wiederzuzahlen in der man mich bezalht.] - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, To the Ultramontanes |
| 01/01/07: |
He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea (canto III, l. 66) |
| 01/01/06: |
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Agnes Repplier, Points of View |
| 01/01/05: |
Anything for a quiet life. - Thomas Middleton, title of a play |
| 01/01/04: |
His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. - William Cowper, Truth (l. 405) |
| 01/01/03: |
Content thyself to be obscurely good. - Joseph Addison, Cato (IV, 4) |
| 01/01/02: |
I have sworn with my tongue, but my mind is unsworn. [Lat., Juravi lingua, mentem injuratem gero.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), De Officiis (III, 29) |
| 01/01/01: |
You'ld be so lean that blasts of January Would blow you through and through. - William Shakespeare, Winter's Tale (Perdita at IV, iv) |
