Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 “If fortune wants to do you in, she makes you stupid.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim-writer, 85 BC — 43 BC
Posted on August 7, 2022August 7, 2022 “Nobody learns no nothing from no history.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band; in ‘Avenue B’ from “Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike” album
Posted on August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”—Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, 1903-1990
Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 “A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.”—Nicolas Chamfort, French epigramist, 1741-1794
Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 “An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”—Pliny the Younger [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundis], 61-c.113 AD
Posted on August 2, 2022August 1, 2022 “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”—Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist, 1893-1986
Posted on July 30, 2022July 30, 2022 “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”—George Smith Patton, U.S. Army general, 1885-1945
Posted on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 “What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844-1900
Posted on July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 “Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961
Posted on July 27, 2022July 26, 2022 “Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”—Philip Johnson, American architect, 1906-2005
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