Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
—Juvenal
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Sunday, April 06, 2025
Post #3276
If from a thousand pecks of beans you steal one, my loss indeed in that way is less serious, but not so your crime.
—Horace
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Post #3275
The sailor speaks of winds, and the ploughman of oxen ; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
—Propertius
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Post #3274
And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy".
—John F. Kennedy
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Post #3273
Take what relates to body as far as the bare use warrants — as meat, drink, raiment, house and servants. But all that makes for show and luxury reject.
—Epictetus
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
- dave
- El Paso, Texas, United States
- Native Texan · Navy Veteran · Various Scars and Tattoos · No Talent, but yet a Character