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On This Day, August 30 …
1965 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the
U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first
black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.
Quotes
"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."
~ Marcus Porcius Cato [the Elder], 234-149 BC, Roman statesman &
historian
"When a cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except
to put up with it until the wind changes."
~ Thomas Stearns [T. S.] Eliot, 1888-1965, Nobel Prize-winning
American-born English poet, playwright & literary critic ("The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", "Old Possum's Book of Practical
Cats")
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
~ Ogden Nash, 1902-1971, whimsical American poet & TV panelist
("Masquerade Party")
"He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages;
so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."
~ Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American founding father,
scientist, publisher & diplomat
"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."
~ Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist,
humorist & journalist ("Short Furrows")
"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except
for learning how to grow in rows."
~ Doug Larson |
