Quotes of the day, April 4
I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.
William Emerson Arnett
June 16
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.
Aristotle
June 15
I don't drink soft drinks. I remember someone saying to me that having a soft drink with a meal is like having two meals.
Rebecca Breeds
June 14
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Albert Einstein
June 13
I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow
stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth,
swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling,
somewhere else it gets back up.
Bob Hicok
June 12
Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
Gloria Estefan
Miami Sound Machine
