Tony's Garden

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “I don’t like ass kissers, flag wavers or team players. I like people who buck the system. Individualists. I often warn people: “Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, ‘There is no “I” in team.’ What you should tell them is, ‘Maybe not. But there is an “I”…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty. And can never be restrained but by despotic governments.” ― George Mason BIRTHDAYS: 1566 Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese composer. Requiem a 4 de Manuel Cardoso, and Lamentatio 1725 George Mason, Founding Father, and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Thus, the central objection raised against the human settlement and terraforming of Mars: Such projects may be technologically feasible, but there is no possible way that they can be paid for. On the surface, the arguments given supporting this position appear cogent, for Mars is a distant place, difficult to access,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.” ― Grace Murray Hopper BIRTHDAYS: 1508 Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, cartographer, philosopher, and instrument maker 1608 John Milton, Poet and political writer. 1837 Émile Waldteufel, French pianist and composer. Les Patineurs The Skaters Op. 183 1886 Clarence Birdseye,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 65 BC Horace, the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). 1724 Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, French organist,…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy…What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.” ― Adam Smith…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.” ― H.G. Wells BIRTHDAYS: 1550 Orazio…

THOUGHT OF THE DAY: “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” ― Abraham Lincoln BIRTHDAYS: 1901 Werner Heisenberg, Theoretical Physicist and Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics 1848 Edwin Blashfield, American painter 1869 Ellis Parker Butler, American author (Pigs is Pigs) 1890 Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker and screenwriter (Metropolis) 1895…