Quote of the Day for 2016-08-06

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument, which shall endure until the sun grows cold."

— Georg Fabricius (1516-1571) in praise of Georgius Agricola in De Re Metallica (1566) as translated by Herbert and Lou Hoover (1912)

Marilyn Monroe (circa 1950) Photograph by L. J. Willinger

Quote of the Day for 2016-06-13

"For someone like me, it is a very strange habit to write in a diary. Not only that I have never written before, but it strikes me that later neither I, nor anyone else, will care for the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl."

— Anne Frank (1929-1944) The Diary of a Young Girl, June 20, 1942 (1947)

Bronze sculpture of Anne Frank by Sara Pons Arnal (2001) near the corner of Travessia de Sant Antoni and Plaça d'Anna Frank in Barcelona (Photograph by Enfo)

Quote of the Day for 2015-11-02

"Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost."

— Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) The Wisdom of Life

Cover of The Observer on October 14, 2012, after Lance Armstrong was stripped of his cycling titles.