Posted on January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 “How many things I can do without!”—Socrates, Greek philosopher, 4th century BC
Posted on January 11, 2021 “In many ways the saying ‘Know thyself’ is lacking. Better to know other people.”—Menander, Greek dramatist, 342-291 BC
Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 “It Can’t Happen Here.”—Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, 1885-1951
Posted on January 7, 2021 “The great masses of the people…will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”—Adolf Hitler, German politician & Nazi Party leader, 1889-1945
Posted on January 6, 2021 “As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.”—Christopher Dawson, British historian, 1889-1970
Posted on January 5, 2021 “One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”—Dorothy Parker, American writer, 1893-1967
Posted on January 4, 2021January 4, 2021 “The generality of mankind are contented to be estimated by what they possess instead of what they are.”—William Hazlitt, English drama critic, 1778-1830
Posted on January 2, 2021January 2, 2021 “Ridicule is the first and last argument of fools.”—Charles Simmons, British politician, 1893-1975
Posted on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 “The nature of men is always the same; it is their habits that separate them.”—Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551-479 BC
Posted on December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 “The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.”—Rachel Carson, American biologist & author, 1907-1964