Quote of the Day for 2016-04-10

"It's people like [Alma Mahler] who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years."

— Tom Lehrer (1928-    ) Introduction to "Alma," That Was the Year That Was (1965)

Alma Mahler, Vienna (1909)

Quote of the Day for 2016-03-12

"Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak–and speak in such a way that people will remember it."

– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Letter to Leopold Mozart, July 4, 1781

Jean Jaurès Speaking at the Tribune of the Chamber of Deputies by Jean Veber (1903)