Saturday, December 15, 2007

[1791 - Three-fourths of the states having ratified the ten Articles, the Bill of Rights was adopted]

[1832 - Gustave Alexandre Eiffel, engineer, designer, born in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France]

[1892 - J. (Jean) Paul Getty, oil magnate, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota]

[1904 - Kermit Bloomgarden, Tony Award-winning producer, born in Brooklyn]

To Horace, To Horace!

Perhaps the current administration could derive some small benefit from the words of the poet Horace, written in 23 B.C.:

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Odes, Book III, iv, line 65

William's Whimsical Words:

Wisdom requires a plan for that which follows the application of force.

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