MondaySep 16, 2024
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed A very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.
Marjorie Fleming
Terms of use and copyrights
