Tony's Garden

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Successful visionaries start from where they are, what they have, and what their customers have.” — Tom Gilb BIRTHDAYS: 1590 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist, born in Niedersachsen, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg. Nasce la pena mia, Lachrime Pavaen 1684 Johann Jacob de Neufville, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” — Winston S. Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1528 Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer. A un niño llorando al hielo, and Si La Noche Haze Escura 1515 Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter. 1657 Francesco…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.” — Hannah Arendt BIRTHDAYS: 1631 Sebastian Anton Scherer, German composer, born in Ulm, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire. Intonatio Primi Toni 1848 Henry Lerolle,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” — Marx BIRTHDAYS: 1809 Anton Emil Titl, Austrian composer. Serenade 1869 Mahatma Gandhi, Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1842 Charles Cros, French inventor and poet 1865 Paul Dukas, French composer. L’Apprenti sorcier 1881 William Boeing, American aviation pioneer. MISCELLANEOUS: THE ONLY THING THE MULLAHS DREAD MORE THAN ISRAEL ARE IRANIAN CITIZENS. Israel…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions.” — Elie Wiesel, Night BIRTHDAYS: 1207 Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet, born in Khorassan, Afghanistan 1550 Michael Maestlin, German…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.” — H. L. Mencken BIRTHDAYS: 551 Confucius, Chinese philosopher. 1571 Michael Praetorius [Schultze], German…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.” — Thomas Paine BIRTHDAYS:…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Life is a planetary level phenomonon and the Earth has been alive for at least 3000 million years. To me the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable – the rhethoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self inflated…