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Quote of the Day

The future is purchased by the present.

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1809). “The Rambler”, p.94

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

Douglas William Jerrold (1853). “Punch's letters to his son, Punch's complete letter writer, and Sketches of the English”, p.286

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

"Mary Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller, II. 3. 136, June 14, 1800.