“Sentimentality is rust in the gears of the machine of progress.”
Category: Quotes for the day
An archive for the quotes of the day.
Quote for the day: from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The moving finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on, nor all Thy piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all Thy tears wash out a Word of it.
Quote for today – Voltaire
“…There is but one morality, M. Le Beau, as there is but one geometry. But you will tell me that the greater part of mankind are ignorant of geometry. True; but if they apply a little to the study of it, all men draw the same conclusions. …We cannot repeat too frequently that dogmas differ, but that morality is the same among all men who make use of their reason.”
Voltaire, in the article titled “Morality” in his “Philosophical Dictionary.”
Quote for today
O, that you were yourself! But, love, you are
No longer yours than you yourself live here.
Against this coming end you should prepare
And your sweet semblance to some other give.
Willian Shakespeare, Sonnet XIII