Tag: poetry
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July 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “This is why a youth is not a suitable student of political science; for he lacks experience of the actions in life, which are the subject and premises of our arguments.” — Aristotle BIRTHDAYS: 1593 Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian Baroque painter (most famous female painter of the 17th century). 1838 Eli Lilly,…
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July 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave… Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer.” — Epictetus BIRTHDAYS: 1569 Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Italian composer, choirmaster, and oratorio pioneer. O salutaris hostia 1690 Johann Tobias Krebs, German…
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July 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.” — Gabriel Faure BIRTHDAYS: 1638 Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch painter. 1678 Nicola Francesco Haym, Italian composer. Sonata n 1 in do minore 1755 John Flaxman, English Neoclassical sculptor. MISCELLANEOUS: WILL FEDEX WILL BE THEIR FIRST…
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July 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass BIRTHDAYS: 1654 Antonio Maria Pacchioni, Baroque composer. Dixit Dominus 1867 A. E. Douglass, American astronomer and inventor dendrochronology/tree-ring dating. 1889 Jean Cocteau, French poet, painter, and filmmaker. 1958 William “Bill” Watterson, American cartoonist and author (Calvin…
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July 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves,…
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July 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” — Franz Kafka BIRTHDAYS: 1643 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer, born in Bologna, Papal States. Sinfonia a 3 in d minor 1854: Leoš Janáček, Czech composer. Glagolitic Mass…
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July 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It is usually not recognized that for every injurious or parasitic microbe there are dozens of beneficial ones. Without the latter, there would be no bread to eat nor wine to drink, no fertile soils and no potable waters, no clothing and no sanitation. One can visualize no form of higher…
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July 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Without property rights, no other rights are possible.” — Ayn Rand BIRTHDAYS: 1586 Claudio Saracini, Italian composer, born in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany. le Seste musiche. Fuge d-moll 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (co-developer of differential and integral calculus). 1725 Comte de Rochambeau, French Royal Army officer…
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June 30, 2026
THOUGHT FOR 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: 1748 Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer. 1789 Horace Vernet, French painter (battles and Orientalist subjects). 1926 Paul Berg, American biochemist (Nobel…
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June 29, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I write to understand as much as to be understood.” — Elie Wiesel BIRTHDAYS: 1805 Hiram Powers, American sculptor. 1868 George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (magnetic fields in sunspots). 1911: Bernard Herrmann, American film score composer (Citizen Kane, Psycho, Vertigo). Prelude – Fire Trucks (Fahrenheit 451 soundtrack, 1966, Bernard Herrmann), Fahrenheit…
