Friday, April 3, 2020

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.” - Michel de Montaigne

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
April 3
“If this is coffee please bring me some tea; but if this is tea please bring me some coffee.” - Abraham Lincoln


Thursday, April 2, 2020

“If you want to make enemies try to change something.” “ – Woodrow Wilson

“Me Too, 365,” by Arnold Kunst
2 April
“Nothing will work unless you do.” - Maya Angelou

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“Me Too, 365,” by Arnold Kunst
1 April
“Never forget this: your one mouth is outnumbered by twice as many ears. [That’s true of her as well, of course, but since you’re a Real Man you have to lead the way, right?] So, keep your hyper-active fix-it gene in check; be long on listening and short on solving. That way she’ll will let off steam by simply talking it out. Talk is one of nature’s built-in emotional siphons, just as rain is nature’s built-in irrigation system.” – Arnold Kunst

“Growing old is a pain, but it sure beats the alternative!” - An old person

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
2 April
There is an exclusive club of well over 70,000 people in this country who are over 100 years old. Our goal, yours and mine, is to swell their ranks when our time comes.

“Once you defy the laws of gravity life becomes exciting.” - Anonymous

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
1 April
There are 162 games in a baseball season. Your team will win 54 games, which is a third, and lose another 54. The World Series goes to the team that does the right thing with the remaining 54.

“We may fret and fuss and fume, but no matter how wide the gamut of our actions, no matter how wild the gyrations of our imaginations we are sustained utterly within the palm of God's hand.” - Arnold Kunst

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
April 2
“I do not consider that I have ever accomplished anything without God; and if it is His will that I must die by the hand of an assassin I must be resigned. I must do my duty as I see it and leave the rest with God.” - Abraham Lincoln

“Education is not preparation for life. It is life itself.” - John Dewey

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
April 1
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.” - Abraham Lincoln