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
December 6, 2023
QUOTE
I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.
November 30, 2023
QUOTE
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot
Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.
I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don’t owe.
The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.
November 27, 2022
QUOTE
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
November 26, 2022
QUOTE
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.
November 25, 2022
QUOTE
The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich
November 22, 2022
QUOTE
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
November 15, 2022
QUOTE
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
November 7, 2022
QUOTE
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.
