Quote of the Day for 2016-06-21

"It has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty."

— Frances Burney (1752-1840) Evelina, volume 1, letter vi (1778)

Gillian Anderson as Lily Bart from The House of Mirth (2000) posing in a tableau vivant as Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Ceres (Summer) (circa 1717)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-08

"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."

— Molière (1622-1673) Les Femmes Savantes, act 4, scene 3

Terry Jones, Pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, asserting to the media that the burning of Korans will continue as planned (September 8, 2010) Photo by Scott Audette for Reuters

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-01

"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

— Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) Les Caractères

Marie Antoinette au Tribunal Révolutionnaire
Engraving by Alphonse François, from a painting by Paul Delaroche (1857)