Posted on November 22, 2021 “Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.”—Friedrich von Schiller, German philosopher, 1759-1805
Posted on November 4, 2021November 3, 2021 “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”—Cyril Northcote Parkinson, British author of “Parkinson’s Law,” 1909 to 1993
Posted on October 11, 2021October 10, 2021 “If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”—Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American socialite, 1884-1980
Posted on September 23, 2021September 22, 2021 “Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC
Posted on September 21, 2021 “Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924
Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 “The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.”—Lewis Mumford, American historian, 1895-1990
Posted on August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 “Mankind censures injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.”—Plato, Greek philosopher, 428-348 BC
Posted on August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 “Many commit the same crime and face a different fate: that man gets the cross, this one the crown.”—Decimus Juvenal, Roman poet, 1st-2nd centuries, AD
Posted on August 25, 2021 “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”—Aesop, Greek fabulist, 620-564 BC
Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 “The public don’t know what they want; it’s my job to tell them.”—Alec Issigonis, British automotive designer, 1906-1988
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