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
August 16, 2022
QUOTE
If you can’t be happy at the prospect of lunch, you are unlikely to be happy about anything.
August 15, 2022
QUOTE
I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him… The moral: When you’re full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
There are men running governments who shouldn’t be allowed to play with matches.
When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.
Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans
The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
August, 14, 2022
QUOTE
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Steve Martin
I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
I cannot smell mothballs because it’s so difficult to get their little legs apart.
August 12, 2022
QUOTE
Never say ‘no’ to adventures.
Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
August 9, 2022
QUOTE
There are a lot of people who will give money or materials, but very few who will give time and affection.
August 7, 2022
QUOTE
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.
