Tony's Garden

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Well, I’m not here to impinge on anybody else’s lifestyle. If I’m in a place where I know I’m going to harm somebody’s health or somebody asks me to please not smoke, I just go outside and smoke. But I do resent the way the nonsmoking mentality has been imposed on…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.” ― Karl R. Popper BIRTHDAYS: 1646 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), born in Naumburg, Hesse-Homburg. Matthäus Passion, and Nun, ich singe! Gott ist knie 1796 Walter Hunt, American mechanical engineer (and inventor of the safety pin).…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Keep in mind that it is hubris to think that we know how to save the Earth: our planet looks after itself. All we can do is try to save ourselves.” ― James Lovelock BIRTHDAYS: 1609 Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, born and baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic 1824 Jacopo…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” ― Carl Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1502 Francesco Corteccia, Italian composer, born in Florence, Florentine Republic. Il Concerto dei Fiati, and Tenebræ Factæ Sunt, and Bacco, Bacco 1667 Jean Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician. 1852 Edward Onslow Ford, English sculptor 1877…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ― Winston S. Churchill BIRTHDAYS: 1694 Johann Samuel Endler, German composer, musician, and conductor, born in Olbernhau, Electorate of Saxony. Chaconne. 1782 John Field, Irish pianist, composer and teacher widely credited as…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” ― Eric Hoffer BIRTHDAYS: 1654 Agostino Steffani, Italian bishop, polymath, diplomat and composer, born in Castelfranco Veneto, Republic of Venice. Stabat Mater XII; Quando corpus morietur, and…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”When we do not take structures and constraints for granted we look at the world with different eyes. We start to see bridges where others see gaps.” ― Christian Busch BIRTHDAYS: 1783 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan military man and politician. He is often called “El Libertador” (The Liberator) for his role in…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. We cannot change the rules of the game, we cannot ascertain whether the game is fair. We can only study the player at his game; not, however, with the detached attitude of a bystander, for we are watching our…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: ”You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury BIRTHDAYS: 1817 John Gilbert, British artist, illustrator and engraver. 1865 Robert Kahn, German composer, born in Mannheim, Baden, German Confederation. Klavierstück no. 2 from Zwischen Sommer und Herbst, op. 67 1870…