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 12, 2022December 14, 2022 “Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.”—Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet, 1802-1850
Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022 “There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)
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
Posted on September 10, 2022September 10, 2022 “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC
Posted on September 4, 2022September 4, 2022 “If music doesn’t come from windows, you know that something’s definitely wrong.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band (Eugene Hütz)
Posted on August 18, 2022August 18, 2022 “Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.”—Ogden Nash, American poet, 1902-1971
Posted on April 30, 2022 “You who seek an end of love—love will yield to busyness: be busy, and you will be safe.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD
Posted on April 20, 2022April 19, 2022 “There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh!”—Catullus, Latin poet, c.84-c.54 BC
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