Posted on December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 “God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”—Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, 1942-2018
Posted on December 15, 2022December 15, 2022 “God does not play dice with the universe.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955
Posted on December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”—Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host, 1954-
Posted on December 12, 2022December 14, 2022 “Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.”—Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet, 1802-1850
Posted on December 11, 2022 “To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.”—Henri Pétain, French ambassador, 1876-1944
Posted on December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 “Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”—Dr. Samuel Johnson, English writer, 1709-1784
Posted on December 6, 2022December 5, 2022 “Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?”—Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French maxim author, 1613-1680
Posted on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022 “It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, so cry away.”—Charles Dickens, English writer & social critic, 1812-1870
Posted on November 29, 2022November 29, 2022 “Life is one long struggle in the dark.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on November 25, 2022November 25, 2022 “There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.”—Milan Kundera, Czech writer, 1929–
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