Quote of the Day for 2016-09-19

"But look, you are hiding a lance under your clothes, surely."

— Aristophanes (circa 446-386 BCE) Lysistrata, scene 6 (411 BCE) translation was done anonymously, but is presumed to have been Oscar Wilde

Mae West as Catherine II, from her play Catherine Was Great (1944)

Quote of the Day for 2016-09-05, Labor Day

"And all labour without any play, boys, / Makes Jack a dull boy in the end."

— Alexander Hay Japp (1837-1905) "Some Book-Worms Will Sit and Will Study," "Vers de Société," The Gentleman's Magazine (November 1880)

Members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, marching in a May Day parade in New York City (May 1, 1914) Photograph by George Grantham Bain