Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War [1810] Quote #14306 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more...
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77 Quote #14515 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at...
H. L. Mencken Quote #3988 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it...
Sydney Smith Quote #17719 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them....
Giacomo Leopardi Quote #4036 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what...
Thomas Szasz Quote #31979 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their...
Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner Quote #4235 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 The gods help them that help themselves.
Demosthenes, First Olynthiac Quote #4457 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950) Quote #14457 Author admin Date October 28, 2013 There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the...