Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
On this date in 1920 the Prohibition era began in the USA; it lasted until 1933.
“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.” — Frank Sinatra
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the morning, when you find yourself loathe to rise, have this thought at hand: “I am arising to a man’s work. Shall I be annoyed at having to set about the work for which I was born, and for which I was brought into the world? Was I designed for the purpose of lying among the blankets and keeping myself warm?”
— Marcus Aurelius
“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“In the hive and the ant-hill we see fully realised the two things that some of us most dread for our own species — the dominance of the female and the dominance of the collective.”
— C.S. Lewis
My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jina and Jacey Jones.
— January Jones
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. — Hal Borland
“Always know exactly what you are going to say. Never know how you are going to say it.”
— Nigel Nicolson
I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
— Stephen Hawking