Wednesday, August 13, 2008
John L. Hutchins - It's been so long
I completely forgot to mention what a wonderful pleasure it was to see John L. Hutchins on my trip to Cleveland. His extensive library (including the Septuagint and Die Bibel) would lead you to believe he has profound theological knowledge. I hear he is pretty smart. I mean, he did marry Mur...
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how much did he pay you?
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." ~Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991
If it were up to John, we would not have anything else in our house.
Mary
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. ~P.J. O'Rourke
If John dies tonight people will remember him as a true Star
Wars fanatic.
Mary
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. ~Groucho Marx
Mary
A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833
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Mary
A house without books is like a room without windows. ~Heinrich Mann
Mary
I like intellectual reading. It's to my mind what fiber is to my body. ~Grey Livingston
And we all know how important fiber is.
M
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ~Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710
Somebody ripped somebody off.
M
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. ~Voltaire
I bet Voltaire probably thinks I am stupid, but probably not because I have read too much. I bet he wouldn't like the internet or blogging either. Well, maybe we don't like Voltaire. Who is Voltaire.
M
"François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.
Voltaire was a prolific writer, and produced works in almost every literary form, authoring plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, over 20,000 letters and over two thousand books and pamphlets.
He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Catholic Church dogma and the French institutions of his day.
Voltaire was one of several Enlightenment figures (along with John Locke and Thomas Hobbes) whose works and ideas influenced important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions."
~Wikepedia
So he was french...You know, John knew who he was.
What was I talking about?
So is there a comment limit?
Should I try and see?
M
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill
Did you know that I wanted to name William "John Winston" but John wouldn't let me because he said it is John Lennon's name?
When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby
But will you feel it coming on, like when you are halfway there?
M
Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
Steven Spielberg~
True. I wonder if I could just give out dollar bills for Christmas and package them as bookmarks? I have been looking for a good homemade gift. Eleanor could even help.
1) "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video clip; listen to audio clip)
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