Posted on November 19, 2022November 19, 2022 “There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.”—José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, 1883-1955
Posted on October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”—Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, 1769-1821
Posted on October 16, 2022October 16, 2022 “A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.”—Alfred Alistair Cook, British-American writer, 1908-2004
Posted on September 21, 2022September 20, 2022 “When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC
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 14, 2022 “Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on September 12, 2022 “You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC
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 9, 2022September 8, 2022 “Put a mouth to a mouth, but don’t put a pen to paper.”—Irish proverb
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)
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