Tag: poetry
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May 12, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” — Ambrose Bierce BIRTHDAYS: 1803 Justus von Liebig, German agricultural and biological chemist (founder of organic chemistry). 1812 Edward Lear, English landscape painter and poet (known for Complete Nonsense). 1820 Florence Nightingale, pioneering nurse and statistician (often associated with scientific/medical…
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May 11, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.” — Richard Feynman BIRTHDAYS: 1772 Henri-Jean Rigel, French composer, music director. Symphony no.14 mov. 2&3 1791 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer. Symphony in D major op. 23 1823 Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter. 1824…
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May 10, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.” — F.A. Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1697 Jean-Marie Leclair l’aîné, French violinist and Baroque composer. A2 Allegro（Third movement from Sonata in B minor, Op.5 No.5, and Violin Sonata no.3 in D Major, and Sarabande et tambourin (3d sonata from the 4th book of sonatas for violin and basso…
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May 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” — G.K. Chesterton BIRTHDAYS: 1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author (Dante’s Inferno, Divina Commedia). 1829 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist and composer, born in Sinalunga, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Sonetto di Dante. 1850 Edward Weston, English-born American electrical engineer and…
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May 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.” — Friedrich August von Hayek BIRTHDAYS: 1737 Edward Gibbon,…
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May 7, 2026
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: 1711 David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment and one…
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May 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset BIRTHDAYS: 1581 Frans Francken the Younger,…
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May 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.” — Elbert Hubbard BIRTHDAYS: 1680 Giuseppe Porsile, Neapolitan composer, born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire. Posa sopra d`un faggio 1903 – James Beard, American culinary expert, author, and writer (influential cookbook author). MISCELLANEOUS: COMPETITION IS GOOD. Other Pipelines and Projects…
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May 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If people don’t think they have the power to solve their problems, they won’t even think about how to solve them.” — Saul Alinsky BIRTHDAYS: 1826 Frederick Edwin Church, American painter (Hudson River School landscape artist). 1905 Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian-British composer (classical and jazz). Four French Folk Songs 1907 Lincoln Kirstein,…
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May 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984 BIRTHDAYS: 1655: Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker and inventor of the piano. 1738: Josef Kohaut, Czech composer. Concerto per il liuto, due violini & violoncello F-dur 1825:…
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