WHAT MY DAD
TAUGHT ME!

Quote for Father's Day - June 20, 2010


"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."


Mario Cuomo, Time magazine, June 2, 1986

TRUTH, BE KNOWN .... 

Quote for the Day - June 19, 2010


"Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."


Harry S Truman [1884-1972]


Or as Prince Otto von Bismarck [1815-1898] said it, "Whenever a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice."

A MEAN MIND

Quote for the Day - June 18m  2010


"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."


Walter Bagehot [1826-1877]

FROM PASSION
TO COMPASSION

Quote for the Day - June 17, 2010

"To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion."


Albert Camus [1913-1960]

Pictures of Albert Camus off the Internet

PICASSO

Quote of the Day - June 16,  2010

"There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael, and those who never heard of either of them."

John White

Painting on top Raphael [1483-1520] Self Portrait, c. 1506

Below that, Picasso [1881-1973] Self Portrait from his blue period c. 1900

GETTYSBURG  ADDRESS

Quote for the Day - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- June 15, 2010


"Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope."


Louis Untermeyer [1885-1977]


Any comments?


Here are my first six:
1) Good thing he had the right address.
2) Was it a comfortable ride?
3) Now that's a way to save the government money. I hear Air Force One is very expensive.
4) Hang on - this could be a tricky ride.
5) Were you able to read your own writing while giving the speech?
6) Others say he wrote and worked on that address a long time before heading for Gettysburg.

MAKE SURE YOU
READ YOUR
OWN AUTOBIOGRAPHY -
WRITTEN OR MEMORIZED!

Quote of the Day - June 14, 2010


"Every man's memory is his private literature."


Ardous Huxley [1894-1963]


At Tom Dabney's wake a few weeks back, one of his sons said, "I once heard someone say that when someone dies, a while library burns down." There is a lesson here - somewhere. Write your memoirs and make several copies - one in a fire proof safe? Sit on a porch in a good chair, close your eyes and read your own stories? Talk to each other?