“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” –attributed to Richelieu, but not conclusively his.
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: August 2013
The names of the Furies in Greek mythology: Megaera [jealous] Tisiphone [blood avenger] Alecto [unceasing in pursuit]
“Wherever bitterness is, there love is wanting. And where love is wanting in the married life, there is hell upon earth.” –Adam Clark in his commentary on Colossians 3:19
A humorously named but very sad real disease that affects domesticated African Pygmy hedgehogs.
“Jack, I’m gonna give you a D minus if you promise you’ll never take Spanish again.” “I’ll take it.” A missionary to Mexico since 1967, relating his college Spanish class experience. He would later go on to graduate at the top of his class in Spanish language school.
Goo is my co-pilot. This is a prime example of why it is important to choose an appropriate font when you design something. It is equally important for fonts to be designed well in the first place. Why make a font where the O and the D are virtually identical? Of course, speaking of design, […]
“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.”
n.; a burglar or safecracker
“If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some [expletive deleted] silly thing in the Balkans.” –Otto von Bismark And then this happened: Next stop: World War I. As quoted by Winston Churchill in an address given on August 16, 1945 in the House of Commons. Photo from the Smithsonian.