2008 Calendar Yiddish 366 Phrase-A-Day (Barnes & Noble) 4/27/8
Yedeh mutter denkt ir kind iz shain. (ye-deh moot-er denkt ir kind iz shayn) Every mother thinks her child is beautiful.
My wife feels—and I agree to a certain degree—that most newborns are ugly. Everyone dotes over newborns and their photos, but really they look alike, and look like a cross between a troll doll and Golom from The Lord of the Rings. So there's a ring of truth to the ellipsis implied in this statement.
Rating 9/10 premies.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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