Christmas Every Day

I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she’s inaugurated in January 2017 – but I’m going to be sitting with the senators.

— Tim Kaine

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

— Winston Churchill, 1951

Today is the birthday of Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) who wrote widely and said:

“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”

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

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters’ names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

— January Jones