Posted on October 7, 2022October 6, 2022 “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”—James A. Garfield, U.S. President, 1831-1881
Posted on October 3, 2022 “Solemnity is the shield of idiots.”—Montesquieu, French philosopher, 1689-1750
Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 “A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.”—Thomas Hardy, English novelist, 1840-1928
Posted on September 24, 2022September 24, 2022 “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”—Samuel Butler, English novelist, 1835-1902
Posted on September 24, 2022September 23, 2022 “Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”—William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616
Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022 “There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)
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, 2022 “Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935
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 17, 2022September 17, 2022 “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”—Oscar Levant, American comedian, 1906-1972
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