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The Daily Extract™/Proverbium Seniorum™ is a Commonplace Book in the form of a Blog of Quotations, Epigrams, and Excerpts. It can be found at https://proverbiumseniorum.blog/ Engraving: “Odin in the guise of a wanderer," 1886, Georg von Rosen (1843-1923)

Posted on December 7, 2016November 3, 2021

“War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.”—Anacreon, Greek lyric poet, c. 582–c. 485 BC

Posted on December 6, 2016December 6, 2016

“So is a word better than a gift.”—Apocrypha

Posted on December 5, 2016December 5, 2016

“Things are seldom what they seem; skim milk masquerades as cream.”—W.S. Gilbert (in Gilbert & Sullivan’s ‘HMS Pinafore’)

Posted on December 4, 2016April 24, 2020

“Familiarity breeds contempt.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC

Posted on December 3, 2016December 3, 2016

“Nothing happens next. This is it.”—Gahan Wilson, American cartoonist

Posted on December 2, 2016December 2, 2021

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”—Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posted on November 30, 2016November 30, 2016

“Force has no place where there is need of skill.”—Herodotus, Greek historian

Posted on November 29, 2016November 29, 2016

“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”—Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher

Posted on November 28, 2016October 2, 2020

“For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626

Posted on November 25, 2016November 25, 2016

“Big book, big bore.”—Callimachus, Greek critic, 305-240 BC

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