Tony's Garden

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.” — Marcus Aurelius BIRTHDAYS: 1598 Johann Crüger [Jan Krygar], Sorbian-German cantor, hymn composer, editor (Praxis pietatis melica), and educator, born in Groß Breesen, Kingdom of Bohemia. Wie schöne leucht der Morgenstern 1627 Johann Kaspar Kerll, German composer, born…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain BIRTHDAYS: 1533 Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer, born in Correggio, Duchy of Modena and Reggio, Papal States. La zambeccara, and Cumque Beatissimus Marcus Evangelista, and Susanne un jour 1692 Giuseppe Tartini, Venetian Baroque composer and violinist…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.” — Wordsworth BIRTHDAYS: 1613 Gerrit Dou, Dutch baroque painter. 1622 Louise Hollandine, Abbess and painter. 1694 Coelestin Praelisauer, German organist, composer, and monk, baptized in Kötzting, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire. 1699 Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, German choirmaster and composer, baptized…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid” — James D. Watson BIRTHDAYS: 1651 André Dacier, French classical scholar and translator…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constituent, but on minute organisms suspended in it, which owed their energy to their vitality, it occurred to me that decomposition in the injured part…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.” — Hilaire Belloc BIRTHDAYS: 1648 Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born British sculptor and woodcarver. 1752 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “And that young brown boys and girls can look at me and go, “Hey, he looks like me and he’s doing what?” And that’s great. I love that. But I also hope we are pushing the other direction that one day we don’t have to talk about these first. That one…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.” — Alfred Adler BIRTHDAYS: 1632 Georg Caspar Weckler, German organist and composer, baptized in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. Fuge in D Dorian 1805 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays,…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting BIRTHDAYS: 1852 Edward Austin Abbey, American painter. 1868 Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (Cyrano de Bergerac). 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Piano Concerto No.…

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.” — Viktor E. Frankl BIRTHDAYS: 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and musician of the…