Posted on September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 “The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935
Posted on September 23, 2020 “Solvitur ambulando.” (“It is solved by walking.”)—St. Jerome, Early Christian theologian, 347-420 AD
Posted on September 18, 2020 “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”—Susan Sontag, American writer, 1933-2004
Posted on September 14, 2020 “Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774
Posted on September 10, 2020 “Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”—André Maurois, French author, 1885-1967
Posted on September 3, 2020 “The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.”—Oscar Levant, American comedian, 1906-1972
Posted on September 2, 2020 “If a poet interprets a poem of his own, he limits its suggestibility.”—William Butler Yeats, Irish poet, 1865-1939
Posted on September 1, 2020 “If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you’d find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from “The Beverly Hillbillies.”—Dave Barry, American writer & humorist, 1947-
Posted on August 31, 2020 “Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”—Frank Leahy, American football coach, 1908-1973
Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 “Veracity is the heart of morality.”—Thomas Huxley, Biologist, 1825-1895
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