Michael Dobson |
October 25
Social
"For of fortunes sharp adversitee, The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is."
Michael Dobson |
May 4
Social
"Not too far from the invention of fire...we must rank the invention of doubt."
Thomas Huxley, biologist
born May 4, 1825
Michael Dobson |
May 5
Social
"Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter."
"The Law of 5," Principia Discordia
for 5/5
Michael Dobson |
May 6
Social
"In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"
Orson Welles, actor and director, as Harry Lime in "The Third Man"
born May 6, 1915
Michael Dobson |
May 7
Social
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
David Hume, philosopher
born May 7 [O.S. April 26], 1711