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2026/03/11

Todays Thought

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

-Douglas Adams, author (11 Mar 1952-2001)

2026/03/10

Todays Thought

Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

-H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (10 Mar 1858-1933)

2026/03/09

Todays Thought

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., US Supreme Court Justice (8 Mar 1841-1935)

2026/03/02

Todays Thought

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

-Dr. Seuss, author and illustrator (2 Mar 1904-1991)

2026/02/22

We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened age, and in this land of equal liberty, it is our boast, that a man’s religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States.

-George Washington, 1st US president, general (22 Feb 1732-1799)

2026/02/17

Todays Thought

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

-Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author, reformer, and activist (17 Feb 1879-1958)

2026/02/15

Todays Thought

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

-Douglas Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science (b. 15 Feb 1945)

2026/02/06

Todays Thought

The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled lane with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives.

-Florence Luscomb, architect and suffragist (6 Feb 1887-1985)

2026/02/05

Todays Thought

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

-Hartley Shawcross, barrister, politician, and prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crimes tribunal (4 Feb 1902-2003)

2026/02/01

Todays Thought

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be. ...

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed -

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above.

-Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (1 Feb 1902-1967)

2026/01/30

Todays Thought

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

-Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (30 Jan 1882-1945)

2026/01/25

Todays Thought

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

-William Somerset Maugham, writer (25 Jan 1874-1965)

2026/01/22

Todays Thought

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

-Lord Byron, poet (22 Jan 1788-1824)

2026/01/21

Todays Thought

Walking is also an ambulation of mind.

-Gretel Ehrlich, novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 21 Jan 1946)

2026/01/19

Todays Thought

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman ... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

-Montesquieu, philosopher, lawyer, and writer (18 Jan 1689-1755)

2026/01/15

Todays Thought

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.

-Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (15 Jan 1929-1968)