Ruminations
OF THE DAY
July 22, 2024
QUOTE
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
BIRTHDAYS
1925 – Joseph Sargent, Actor, director, and producer
1934 – Louise Fletcher, Actress
1947 – Albert Brooks, Actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
1947 – Don Henley, Singer-songwriter and drummer
1955 – Willem Dafoe, Actor
1964 – David Spade, Actor, producer, and screenwriter
IN MEMORY
1832 – Napoleon II, French emperor
1934 – John Dillinger, Gangster
1967 – Carl Sandburg, Poet and historian
2008 – Estelle Getty, Actress
ON THIS DAY
1598 – William Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, is entered on the Stationers’ Register. By decree of Queen Elizabeth, the Stationers’ Register licensed printed works, giving the Crown tight control over all published material.
1793 – Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first recorded human to complete a transcontinental crossing of North America.
1893 – Katharine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1894 – The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
1937 – The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
July 22, 2024
QUOTE
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
July 21, 2024
QUOTE
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried
July 20, 2024
QUOTE
What else is there for the rich to do,
If not to relieve the poor of their misery?
July 19, 2024
QUOTE
Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you’d be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.
March 14, 2024
QUOTE
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
We can’t solve today’s problems with the mentality that created them.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance
Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
The more I study science, the more I believe in God.
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
March 13, 2024
QUOTE
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
March 12, 2024
QUOTE
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
March 7, 2024
QUOTE
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It’s like the difference between being broke and being poor.
March 6, 2024
QUOTE
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
C. S. Forester
March 5, 2024
QUOTE
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
