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 19, 2022September 18, 2022 “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891
Posted on September 15, 2022 “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940
Posted on September 12, 2022 “You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC
Posted on August 25, 2022 “Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”—James Baldwin, American writer, 1924-1987
Posted on August 19, 2022August 18, 2022 “Our most important thoughts are those which contradict our emotions.”—Paul Valery, French poet, 1871-1945
Posted on August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 “If you don’t have sex for a long time, it sucks, but you’re calm about it. If you haven’t had it for sixteen days, you’re dangerous.”—Jenny Troanni, main character in “Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer”, by Jen Sincero, American author, speaker & success coach, b. 1965
Posted on August 14, 2022August 14, 2022 “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.”—Germaine Greer, Australian feminist author, 1939-
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
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