Posts in the category “quotations”

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”
B.F. Skinner

Thoughts for the Offseason

Thoughts for the Offseason

“The stadium lights are dimmed, the film rooms have gone dark, and the cheerleaders have put their miniskirts away in very small drawers.”

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, (b) Jan 30, 1882

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham

Happy Birthday, Teddy

Happy Birthday, Teddy

Teddy Roosevelt, the Original Rough Rider

“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre DameSouthern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

A few excellent Samuel Johnson quotes

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It’s only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another.”
Ernest Hemingway

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Charles Benchley

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.