Tag: writing
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January 9, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Libraries raised me.” — Ray Bradbury BIRTHDAYS: 1620 Johann Weichmann, German organist, and sacred and secular music composer (Sorgen-Lägerin), born in Wolgast, Pomerania. Rede eines verstorbenen Jünglings aus dem Grabe. 1658 Nicolas Coustou, French sculptor. 1674 Reinhard Keiser, German opera conductor and composer, chiefly of operas and oratorios (Almira; Lukas-Passion), born…
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January 8, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.” — Robert G. Ingersoll BIRTHDAYS: 1822 Carlo Alfredo Piatti, Italian composer, born in Bergamo, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia. Austrian Empire. Serenata for 2 Cellos and Piano 1824 Wilkie Collins, English writer (Woman in White). 1836 Lawrence Alma…
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January 7, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “By the age of 70, he who doesn’t read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards.” — Umberto Eco BIRTHDAYS: 1634 Adam Krieger, German organist and composer, born in Driesen, Brandenburg-Prussia. Komm Galathea, komm mein Herze, and Nun sich der…
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January 6, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” — Khalil Gibran BIRTHDAYS: 1695 Giuseppe Sammartini, Italian oboe virtuoso and late Baroque/early classical composer who served the court of the…
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January 5, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.” — Jean-Baptiste Say BIRTHDAYS:…
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January 4, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay…
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January 3, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.” — Cicero BIRTHDAYS: 106 AD Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher active during the final decades of the Roman Republic. 1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor…
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January 2, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov BIRTHDAYS: 1732 František “Franz” Xaver Brixi, Czech classical composer and kapellmeister, born in Prague, Kingdom…
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January 1, 2026
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.” — Edmund Burke BIRTHDAYS: 1449 Lorenzo de’ Medici, Italian statesman, banker, and de facto ruler of the Republic of Florence from 1469 until his death, inheriting power at age twenty from his father Piero upon the latter’s death in 1469. 1628…
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December 31, 2025
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn’t possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: ‘Oh yes they could!’” — Vladimir Bukovsky BIRTHDAYS: 1514 Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist, physician, and author widely regarded as the founder of modern human anatomy for his pioneering emphasis on empirical dissection of human…
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