Quotes of the day, May 24
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
May 11
Live loath'd and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare
May 10
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
May 9
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
May 8
It's like a little folk song. I think it might've been Harry Belafonte or someone like that who did it. And "Merry Christmas, Everybody" by Slade, which is a rock group - a rock-pop group who are very big over there.
Nick Lowe
Brinsley Schwarz
May 7