An online commonplace book
“On board all day, reading Don Quixote,”
– John Adams
This from a single diary entry by John Adams on May 18, 1779. I believe he was aboard the Alliance, waiting for passage back to America. Remember your diary entries don’t have to be long to be remembered over one hundred years on.
McCullough, David. John Adams. Simon & Schuster, 2001. pg 215
“Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.”
– Abigail Adams
Abigail quoting a line from a Daniel Defoe poem as a reminder to John of men’s natures.
She gets me.
McCullough, David. John Adams. Simon & Schuster, 2001. pg 102
“In the storm, as well as the smooth sea of life, her virtues were ever the object of his trust and veneration”
– Columbian Centinel obituary notice for Abagail Adams
Both John and Abigail Adams should rise in status.
#relationshipgoals
McCullough, David. John Adams. Simon & Schuster, 2001. pg 625
We promise “till death do us part” when our love is young and good-looking and when life is full of promise, but it is in failure or decrepitude or at the hospital bed that we learn what we meant and why.
Zena Hitz
Zena dropping truth right from the introduction.
Hitz, Zena. Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. United States, Princeton University Press, 2021.
A good brother in
law, makes you salt his beer. But,
will lend you his van.
Floodlights and Goalposts 