Tony's Garden

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.” — Groucho Marx BIRTHDAYS: 1839 Hans Thoma, German painter. 1852 William Ramsay, Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The more the state “plans” the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” — Friedrich Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1724 Giovanni Battista Cirri, Italian cellist and composer, born in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna Papal States. Trio Op. 18 n. 2, Largo, and Dúo Op. 1 Nº 3 (Allegro), and Duo in G-Dur, Op. 12, Nr.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.” — Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1928 Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor. 1622 Johann Sebastiani, German baroque composer,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.” — Ludwig von Mises BIRTHDAYS: 1518 Tintoretto, Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. 1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If concepts are not clear, words do not fit. If words do not fit, the day’s workcannot be accomplished, morals and arts do not flourish. If morals and arts donot flourish, punishments are not just. If punishments are not just, the people donot know where to put hand or foot.” —…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “”Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” — Carl Gustav Jung BIRTHDAYS: 1389 Cosimo de’ Medici, Italian banker and politician who became the de facto first ruler of Florence during the Italian Renaissance, establishing the Medici family as its effective leaders…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. We have a method, and that method…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.” — Yamamoto Tsunetomo BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Francesco Borromini, Italian sculptor and architect. 1683 Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer. Les Cyclopes Rondeau, and Suite Dardanus – Tambourins I & II, and…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Neither can his mind be thought to be in tune, whose words do jarre; nor his reason in frame, whose sentence is preposterous.” — Ben Jonson BIRTHDAYS: 1761 Friedrich Ludwig Æmilius Kunzen, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Lübeck. “Romance af Dragedukken”, and “Husarerne på frierier” 1825 Frances…