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)
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 7, 2022August 7, 2022 “Nobody learns no nothing from no history.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band; in ‘Avenue B’ from “Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike” album
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
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