William Mountz

Dad. Teacher. Friend. Director of Adult of Degree Completion @mosolions; Historic Preservation Commissioner @joplincity; @historyatmizzou PhD

[William Mountz @wmountz]

"The world is dark, but it is not hopeless." -Clarence Darrow

[Missouri Southern @mosolions]

Trick-Or-Treat So Others Can Eat 🎃

MSSU's athletes delivered a record breaking 8,618 items to support Souls Harbor of Joplin this week.

Thank you to everyone who participated by donating items and helping to stock the shelves!

[Charlie Brown Fan Account @Peanuts_4Fans]

Happy Halloween! #Peanuts

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“your silence in death will never be able to outstrip all the talking you have done” #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“gold is a good solder for all sorts of cracks” #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“It is a noose that once placed round the neck becomes a Gordian knot, never to be undone except by the scythe of death.” #marriage #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“Oh, if nobody understands me, it's no wonder if my words of wisdom are taken for nonsense.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

Sancho: “You're such a cricket, sir, of everything I say, as well as of everything I do.”

Don Quixote: “Critic is what you should say, not cricket, you corrupter of good language.”

#DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“I hope with God's help to make you understand that it has been wrong of you to drift with the current of those who are convinced that such histories are untrue.” #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

Who go, as people say,

Adventuring their way.

#DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“Just you tell me, then, who's madder - the man who's mad because he can't help it, or the man who chooses to be mad?” #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“there's many a one who's come out shearing and gone back shorn” #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“Old Father Time will take good care to steal our lives away, without us looking for ways to encourage him to end them before their due time and season, when they'll drop from their own ripeness.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote

[Canadian Paintings @Canada_Painting]

A Land Called Yukon
Ted Harrison
1983

[William Mountz @wmountz]

Wonderful time today presenting at @MissouriChamber’s #MoWorkforce2030 conference. Always trying to learn how to better serve #adultlearners

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“What I'm trying to say is that being with you is the manure that's been spread over the barren soil of my poor wits, and the tilling is all this time I've been with you…” 2/2 🤎 #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote 🖤

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“Soil that left to itself would be poor and sterile gives good yields when you manure it and you till it.” 1/2

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“Scepters and crowns of playhouse emperors are never made of pure gold, but of tin or tinsel.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“…for there is no more realistic representation of what we are and what we are going to be than plays and players.” 2/2 #DonQuixote

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“Actors and dramatists…are all instruments with which great benefits are conferred on society, holding up to us at every step a mirror in which we can see the actions of human life most vividly portrayed…” 1/2

[William Mountz @wmountz]

“sorrows weren't made for animals but for men, yet if men let themselves be too affected by their sorrows they turn into animals.” #SanchoWisdom #DonQuixote