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
April 26, 2023
QUOTE
I want to make someone walk straight, but I’ve left my sons nothing but wars.
April 24, 2023
QUOTE
Your tent is not over there – it’s over there.
(Don’t feel lost. Only 3 people will get this quote and one of them is the Alabama Outlaw and he doesn’t use the internet.)
April 23, 2023
QUOTE
There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.
April 22, 2023
QUOTE
Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.
April 21, 2023
QUOTE
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
It’s better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
April 19, 2023
QUOTE
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
April 18, 2023
QUOTE
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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 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 world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
April 17, 2023
QUOTE
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.
