Posted on January 29, 2023 “The years teach much which the days never know.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher & poet, 1803-1882
Posted on December 11, 2022 “To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.”—Henri Pétain, French ambassador, 1876-1944
Posted on December 6, 2022December 5, 2022 “Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim author, 1613-1680
Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 “Life is one long struggle in the dark.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 “There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”—Milan Kundera, Czech writer, 1929–
Posted on November 16, 2022November 15, 2022 “One’s prime is elusive.”—Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, 1918-2006
Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”—Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, 1769-1821
Posted on October 7, 2022 “While you do not know life, how can you know about death?”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC
Posted on September 19, 2022 “Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935
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