MAYBE  I'M  WRONG

Quote for the Day

THE SAD TALE OF MR. MEARS

There was a man who had a clock,
His name was Matthew Mears;
And every day he wound that clock
For eight and twenty years.

And then one day he found that clock
An eight-day clock to be;
And a madder man than Matthew Mears
You would not wish to see.



Anonymous

Picture: A longcase clock with a pine case, c. 1790, by Thomas Ross of Hull. The two keyholes on either side of the dial show this to be an eight-day clock.

LONG  RUN  ROMANCE

Quote for the Day - May 1, 2010


“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”




Song by James J. Walker, [1881-1946], Beau James, [Mayor of New York 1926-1932]. It was set to music in 1905 by Ernest R. Ball [1878-1927]. Perhaps the thought came from words by John Alexander Joyce [1842-1915] who wrote, “I shall love you in December / With the love I gave in May.” Question and Answer, stanza 8. (The picture of Jimmy Walker is from 1926 - when he was mayor of New York City.

APRIL 

Quote for the Day


"April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."



T. S. Eliot [1888-1965], The Waste Land [1922]. I, The Burial of the Dead
Today is the last day of April. Is April the cruelest month for you?

A GOOD TEACHER

Quote for the Day -- April 29, 2010

"A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something you won't understand until 10 years later."

Julius Lester, "College Teachers," Quest, September, 1981

DON'T TELL US 
WHAT YOU HAVE BEGUN!
SHOW US WHAT YOU
FINISHED!

Quote for the Day


"The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings."




Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]
And women too!

A  GOOD  GUY

Quote of the Day  April 27,  2010

A TOWN'S TRIBUTE TO ITS FRIEND

The other day in Emporia [Kansas], the longest funeral procession that has formed in ten years followed the Rev. John Jones three long miles in the hot July sun out to Dry Creek Cemetery. Now, a funeral procession may mean little or much. When a rich and powerful man dies, the people play politics and attend his funeral for various reasons. But here was the body of a meek, gentle little old man - a man "without purse of scrip." It won't take twenty minutes to settle his estate in probate court. He was a preacher of the gospel - but preachers have been buried before this in Emporia without much show of sorrow.

The reason so many people lined up behind the hearse that held the kind old man's mortality was simple: they loved him. He devoted his life to helping people. In a very simple way, without money or worldly power, he gave of the gentleness of his heart to all around him .... When others gave money - which was of their store - he gave prayers and hard work and an inspiring courage. He helped. In his sphere he was a power. And so when he lay down to sleep hundreds of friends trudged out to bid him good-by with moist and with cramped throats to wish him sweet slumber."

William Allen White [1868-1944] - American newspaper editor and politician.

RANDOM  ACTS 
OF KINDNESS 

Quote of the Day April 26, 2010


"Do good by stealth and blush to find it fame."


Alexander Pope [1688-1744]