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
October 25, 2022
QUOTE
The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you’re born and doesn’t stop till you sit down to write a song.
October 24, 2022
QUOTE
The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
October 23, 2022
QUOTE
When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.
October 22, 2022
QUOTE
If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
October 21, 2022
QUOTE
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
October 20, 2022
QUOTE
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.
It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.
There’s no such thing as being too Southern.
Baptists never make love standing up. They’re afraid someone might see them and think they’re dancing.
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.
God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.
October 17, 2022
QUOTE
Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it
October 16, 2022
QUOTE
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I’m hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
