Posted on November 7, 2016February 21, 2026 “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”—Thomas Mann, German author, 1875-1955
Posted on November 6, 2016February 21, 2026 “Necessity never made a good bargain.”—Benjamin Franklin, American polymath, 1706-1790
Posted on November 5, 2016February 21, 2026 “Money should be mastered, not served.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim-writer, 85-43 BC
Posted on November 4, 2016February 21, 2026 “To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.”—Sophocles, Greek playwright, 496-406 BC
Posted on November 3, 2016February 22, 2026 “A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.”—Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright & author, 1860-1904
Posted on November 2, 2016February 22, 2026 “A dead man cannot bite.”—Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), Roman general, 106-48 BC
Posted on November 1, 2016February 22, 2026 “Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774
Posted on October 31, 2016February 22, 2026 “Extreme law is often extreme injustice.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century, BC
Posted on October 30, 2016February 22, 2026 “Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.”—Zeuxis, Greek painter, late-5th-early-4th-century BC
Posted on October 29, 2016February 22, 2026 “Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”—Ernest Dimnet, French priest, 1866-1954
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