-- James Dean
Pursuing active retirement. Seeing the world. Striving for an agile mind, body, and spirit.
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Quote of the Day -- Paul Bowles
Another important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former
accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who
compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to
his liking.
-- Paul Bowles
Monday, November 27, 2017
Quote of the Day -- Joseph Coughlin
Aging well is not about finding a place to rest. It’s about living in a
place that pulls and pushes you out of your rocking chair.
-- Joseph F. Coughlin, Ph.D.
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Quote of the Day -- Josephine Tey
Tomes have been written trying to define the criminal, but it is a very simple definition after all. The criminal is a person who makes the satisfaction of his own immediate personal wants the mainspring of his actions. You can't cure him of his egotism, but you can make the indulgence of it not worth his while. Or almost not worth his while.
-- Josephine Tey, from The Franchise Affair
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Quote of the Day -- Carrie Fisher
Resentment is like drinking a poison and then waiting for the other person to die.
-- Carrie Fisher (but attribution is fuzzy)
Saturday, November 18, 2017
From the Economist -- About Mugabe's Fall
There are two morals to draw from Mr Mugabe's
long, ignominious career. The first is that bad policies, corruptly
implemented, can wreck a country with alarming speed and go on wrecking
it long after you would have thought there was nothing left.
The second moral is that, for all its disappointments, democracy remains the best antidote for bad rulers.
The second moral is that, for all its disappointments, democracy remains the best antidote for bad rulers.
-- The Economist; Nov 18, 2017
Friday, November 17, 2017
Quote of the Day -- Francois de La Roçhefoucauld
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few
words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying
nothing.
-- Francois de La Roçhefoucauld
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Quote of the Day -- George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
-- George Santayana
Friday, November 10, 2017
Quote of the Day -- Adam Smith
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
-- Adam Smith
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Quote of the Day -- George Sand
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness—simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
-- George Sand
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Quote of the Day -- John Maynard Keynes
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
-- John Maynard Keynes
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Quote of the Day -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
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