Posted on January 29, 2023 “The years teach much which the days never know.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882
Posted on January 19, 2023January 18, 2023 “Love, in the form in which it exists in society, is nothing but the exchange of two fantasies and the superficial contact of two bodies.”—Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794
Posted on January 9, 2023 “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922
Posted on January 4, 2023January 4, 2023 “The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.”—Fanny Burney, English satirical novelist, 1752-1840
Posted on December 21, 2022December 20, 2022 “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”—Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, 1881-1973
Posted on December 17, 2022December 20, 2022 “He that hath no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”—Thomas Fuller, English physician, 1654-1734
Posted on December 16, 2022December 16, 2022 “I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”—Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, 1571-1630
Posted on December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 “God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”—Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, 1942-2018
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