Today is Moliere the French playwright’s birthday. No, I don’t know how to make the little mark above the e; I don’t even know what it’s called. Anyway, here are two quotations from Moliere that I found especially for your encouragement and edification.

“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

“When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing?”

It’s a good thing that ALL of my girls are learning to dance.