Skip to content

PROVERBIUM SENIORUM

(Wisdom of the Elders) Blog of quotations, epigrams,& excerpts. COMMENT/DISCUSS: twitter.com/PSeniorum.

Author: Proverbium Seniorum™

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 August 27, 2017August 27, 2017

“Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”—Elbert Hubbard, American writer, 1856-1915

Posted on August 24, 2017August 24, 2017

“By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and space.”—Democritus, Greek philosopher, 460-370 BC

Posted on August 22, 2017August 22, 2017

“Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.”—Frank Hubbard, harpsichord builder, 1920-1976

Posted on August 21, 2017August 21, 2017

“Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.”—Thomas Jefferson, US President, 1743-1826

Posted on August 20, 2017August 20, 2017

“Money doesn’t satisfy greed; it stimulates it.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim writer, 1st century BC

Posted on August 18, 2017August 18, 2017

“One is not idle because one is absorbed. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.”—Victor Hugo, French poet, 19th century

Posted on August 15, 2017

“Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar.”—Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army general, 1934-2012

Posted on August 13, 2017August 13, 2017

“A look in front is better than two behind.”—Irish proverb

Posted on August 12, 2017

“I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English writer, 18th century

Posted on August 10, 2017

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC

Posts pagination

Previous page Page 1 … Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 … Page 111 Next page

Search for:

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Email Address:

Join 139 other subscribers

Archives

Archives

Meta

Create account
Log in
Entries feed
Comments feed
WordPress.com

Tags

"Observatio Experimenta et Inventum" a blog of quotations Albert Einstein American comedian American poet American writer Aristotle Chinese philosopher Cicero coffees Confucius Creators of innovative teas tisanes and coffees since 2005 Desiderius Erasmus English novelist English writer et Inventum" Euripides Experimenta free educational service French philosopher Fusion-Infusions Fusion-Infusions.com gluten-free Greek dramatist Greek philosopher Greek playwright Horace innovative gluten-free teas tisanes and coffees Irish playwright Irish proverb Mark Twain Observatio Oliver Goldsmith Oscar Wilde Plato Proverbium Seniorum ProverbiumSeniorum.WordPress.com Publilius Syrus Quotations Ralph Waldo Emerson Roman maxim writer Roman philosopher Roman playwright Roman poet Seneca the Younger Sophocles teas The Daily Extract TheDailyExtract.WordPress.com tisanes

Blog at WordPress.com.

Subscribe Subscribed
- PROVERBIUM SENIORUM
- Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

Loading Comments...

You must be logged in to post a comment.