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Thought of the Day
Mankind always sets itself only such problems as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, it will always be found that the task itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution already exist or are in the process of formation.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
If you do good and are god-fearing, surely God is aware of the things you do.
The Koran
By three things is the world sustained: by the Law, by the (Temple-) service, and by deeds of loving kindness.
the Talmud (Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi: Hungarian biochemist (1893 - 1986)
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor’s prejudices as the advertisers don’t object to.
Hannen Swaffer: British Journalist (1879-1962)
Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.
J.P.Donleavy: Irish-American novelist (1926 -
That all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
Samuel Johnson: English Lexicographer (1709 -1784)
My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.
William Jones: English Jurist (1746-1794)
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage . . . .
Richard Lovelace (1618 - 1658)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
