Quote of the Day

“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
– Franklin P. Adams

Poem of the Day: 'A Ballad of Baseball Burdens' | The New York Sun

Quote of the Day

“My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father, and I’m damn well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”
– King George V

George V | Siblings, Children, Successor, & Facts | Britannica

Quote of the Day

“Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.”
– Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney: Career stretched from child star to family-favorite  entertainer - CSMonitor.com

Quote of the Day

“San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don’t mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that’s what it is to me. One time in Kezar stadium they gave me a standing boo.”
– George HalaS

George Halas was a pro basketball pioneer as well

Quote of the Day

“It is a gentleman’s first duty to remember in the morning who it was he took to bed with him.”
– Dorothy L. Sayers

When Dorothy L. Sayers was a translator and other things the 1921 Census  tells us. | Mike Finn's Fiction