Tag: artists
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October 16, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” ― Oscar Wilde BIRTHDAYS: 1622 Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (sculptor and painter). 1679 Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bohemian composer. 1726 Daniel Chodowiecki, German painter and printmaker. 1758 Noah Webster, American…
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October 15, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche BIRTHDAYS: 70 BC Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro):…
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October 14, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In God we trust; all others must bring data.” ― W. Edwards Deming BIRTHDAYS: 1425 Alesso Baldovinetti, Italian Renaissance artist. 1644 William Penn, an English Quaker proprietor, theologian, and colonist who founded the Province of Pennsylvania as a proprietary colony chartered by King Charles II in 1681 to settle a debt…
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October 13, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.” ― Albert Jay Nock BIRTHDAYS: 1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter. 1713 Allan Ramsay, Scottish…
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October 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the…
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October 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.” ― François de La Rochefoucauld BIRTHDAYS: 1949 Theodore Dalrymple, retired English physician, psychiatrist, and author renowned for his essays and books diagnosing the social pathologies afflicting Britain’s underclass, drawn from decades of frontline medical practice in…
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October 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.” ― Frederic Bastiat BIRTHDAYS: 1599 Étienne Moulinié, French Baroque composer. Fantasia for Four Viols, VdGS…
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October 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense…
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October 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” ― Thomas Sowell BIRTHDAYS: 1551 Giulio Caccini, Italian composer. Amor ch’attendi, and Amarilli mia bella 1696 Cornelis Troost, Dutch portrait painter 1868 Max Slevogt, German painter 1869 J. Frank Duryea, American inventor (early automobile) 1917 Walter…
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October 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Americans by the very nature of the soft fat they collected around their brains along with all of their comforts, their total ignorance of historical meanings, their delusion that anarchists were either comic little men plotting nothings in a dark cellar or misunderstood cranks–how could Americans be taken seriously in a…
