Friday, December 30, 2011

QOD: Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ~ Albert Camus (Nov. 7, 1913 ~ Jan. 4, 1960)

Thursday, December 29, 2011

QOD: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ~ Robert Frost (né Robert Lee Frost; Mar. 26, 1874 ~ Jan. 29, 1963), American poet

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

QOD: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.   The world owes you nothing.   It was here first. ~ Mark Twain (né Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Nov. 30, 1835 ~ Apr. 21, 1910), American author

Tuesday December 27, 2011

QOD: If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. ~ Enrico Fermi (Sept. 29, 1901 ~ Nov. 28, 1954), Italian physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics

Monday, December 26, 2011

QOD: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955), German-born theoretical physicist

Sunday, December 25, 2011 / Christmas

QOD: The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle. ~ Robert Altinger

Friday, December 23, 2011

QOD: The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal . . . it’s also the reason they hate birds. ~ K.C. Buffington

Thursday, December 22, 2011

QOD: Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. ~ Louis D. Brandeis (né Louis Dembitz Brandeis; Nov. 13, 1856 ~ Oct. 5, 1941), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

QOD: A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ~ David Brinkley (né David McClure Brinkley; July 10, 1920 ~ July 11, 2003), American journalist and news anchor

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

QOD: No man is rich enough to buy back his past.  ~  Oscar Wilde (né Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde; Oct. 16, 1854 ~ Nov. 30, 1900), Irish writer

Monday, December 19, 2011

QOD: Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. ~ H. L. Mencken (né Henry Louis Mencken; Sept. 12, 1880 ~ Jan. 29, 1956), American journalist

Sunday, December 18, 2011

QOD: I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~ Dwight David Eisenhower (Oct. 14, 1890 ~ Mar. 28, 1969), 34th President of the United States

Friday, December 16, 2011

QOD: An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 ~ Apr. 9, 1959), American architect

Thursday, December 15, 2011

QOD: A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~ Herb Caen (né Herbert Eugene Caen; Apr. 3, 1916 ~ Feb. 1, 1997), American journalist and columnist

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

QOD: A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ~ Ayn Rand (né Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; Feb. 2, 1905 ~ Mar. 6, 1982), Russian-born American author

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

QOD: Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. ~ M. F. K. Fisher (née Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher; July 3, 1908 ~ June 22, 1992), American food writer

Monday, December 12, 2011

QOD: We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. ~ Joan Didion (b. Dec.  5, 1934), American writer  [Joan Didion died on December 23, 2021 at age 87.]

Sunday, December 11, 2011

QOD: You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~ Laurence J. Peter (né Laurence Johnston Peter; Sept. 16, 1919 ~ Jan. 12, 1990), Canadian educator best known for developing the Peter Principle

Friday, December 9, 2011

QOD: A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas." ~ Claude Pepper (né Claude Denson Pepper; Sept. 8, 1900 ~ May 30, 1898), United States Senator from Florida [So, okay, today's my birthday. I'm not as old as Claude Pepper was when he made this statement, but I thought it was appropriate for today. Only AARP thinks I really am a senior.]

Thursday, December 8, 2011

QOD: Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public.   It's too controversial. ~ Erma Bombeck (née Erma Louise Fiste; Feb. 21, 1927 ~ Apr. 22, 1996), American humorist

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

QOD: Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing.  It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house. ~ Sir Alfred Hitchcock (né Alfred Joseph Hitchcock; Aug. 13, 1899 ~ Apr. 29, 1980), British film director

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

QOD: You are only given a little spark of madness.  You mustn't loose it. ~ Robin Williams (b. July 21, 1951), American actor and comedian  [Robin Williams died by suicide on August 11, 2014]

Monday, December 5, 2011

QOD: When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. ~ James Carville (b. Oct. 25, 1944), American political consultant and analyst

Sunday, December 4, 2011

QOD: So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ~ Will Rogers (né William Penn Adair Rogers; Nov. 4, 1879 ~ Aug. 15, 1935), American humorist

Friday December 2, 2011

QOD: Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. ~ Ambrose Bierce (June 24, 1842 ~ disappeared 1914), American writer

Thursday December 1, 2011

QOD: Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ~ Robert Heinlein (July 7, 1907 ~ May 8, 1988), American science fiction author

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

QOD: I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. what do you want, an adorable pancreas? ~ Jean Kerr (July 10, 1922 ~ Jan. 5, 2003), American author and humorist

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

QOD: When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. ~ Henry J. Kaiser (né Henry John Kaiser; May 9, 1882 ~ Aug. 24, 1967), American industrialist and shipbuilder

Monday, November 28, 2011

QOD: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.  ~  Robert Frost (Mar. 26, 1874 ~ Jan. 29, 1963), American poet

Sunday, November 27, 2011

QOD: The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant.   Every table had an argument going. ~ George Carlin (May 12, 1937 ~ June 22, 2008), American comedian

Friday, November 25, 2011

QOD: About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. ~ Herbert Hoover (né Herbert Clark Hoover; Aug. 10, 1874 ~ Oct. 20, 1964), 31st President of the United States

Thursday, November 24, 2011 / Thanksgiving

QOD: It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart. ~ Julius Lester (né Julius Bernard Lester; b. Jan. 27, 1939), American civil rights activist and author  [Julius Lester died at age 78 on January 18, 2018]

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

QOD: It is better to live rich than to die rich. ~ Samuel Johnson (Sept. 18, 1709 ~ Dec. 13, 1784), British lexicographer

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

QOD: There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. ~ Sir Ranulph Fiennes (né Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes; b. Mar. 7, 1944), British explorer and writer

Monday, November 21, 2011

QOD: A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ~ Lou Holtz (né Louis Leo Holtz; b. Jan. 6, 1937), American football player and coach

Sunday, November 20, 2011

QOD: Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (Nov. 14, 1889 ~ May 27, 1964), Prime Minister of India

Friday, November 18, 2011

QOD: Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. ~ Ann Landers (née Esther Pauline Lederer;  July 4, 1918 ~ July 22, 2002), American advice columnist

Thursday, November 17, 2011

QOD: Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Nov. 11, 1922 ~ Apr. 11, 2007), American author

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

QOD: A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others.   Be a carrier.   ~   Sir Tom Stoppard (né Tomáš Straussler; b. July 3, 1937), Czech-born British playwright

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

QOD: Begin challenging your own assumptions.   Your assumptions are your windows on the world.   Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.  ~  Alan Alda (né Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; b. Jan. 28, 1936), American actor

Monday, November 14, 2011

QOD: Like gaining confidence, finding one's courage is gradual rather than all at once. ~ Barbara Barksdale Clowse, American author

Sunday, November 13, 2011

QOD: Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~ Harriet Braiker (Nov. 22, 1948 ~ Jan. 10, 2004), American clinical psychologist

Friday, November 11, 2011

QOD: The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. ~ Carl Sandburg (Jan. 6, 1878 ~ July 22, 1967), American poet

Thursday, November 10, 2011

QOD: Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. ~ Laurence J. Peter (né Laurence Johnston Peter; Sept. 16, 1919 ~ Jan. 12, 1990), Canadian educator best known for developing the Peter Principle

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

QOD: Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.  ~  Les Brown (né Leslie Calvin Brown; b. Feb. 17, 1945), American motivational speaker

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

QOD: The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ~ Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 ~ Apr. 7, 1947), American industrialist and automaker pioneer

Monday, November 7, 2011

QOD: Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Oliver Goldsmith (Nov. 10, 1728 ~ Apr. 4, 1774), Irish novelist and playwright

Sunday, November 6, 2011

QOD: The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. ~ E. B. White (né Elwyn Brooks White; July 11, 1899 ~ Oct. 1, 1985), American author

Friday, November 4, 2011

QOD: I have never been hurt by what I have not said. ~ Calvin Coolidge (né John Calvin Coolidge; July 4, 1872 ~ Jan. 5, 1933), 30th President of the United States

Thursday, November 3, 2011

QOD: Always be smarter than the people who hire you. ~ Lena Horne (née Lena Mary Calhoun Horne; June 30, 1917 ~ May 9, 2010), American singer

Wednesday November 2, 2011

QOD: We always want the best man to win an election.   Unfortunately, he never runs. ~ Will Rogers (né William Penn Adair Rogers; Nov. 4, 1879 ~ Aug. 15, 1935), American humorist

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

QOD: A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man. ~ Catherine Deneuve (b. Oct. 22, 1943), French actress

Monday, October 31, 2011 / Halloween

QOD: From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! ~ Scottish Saying

Sunday, October 30, 2011

QOD: Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955), German-born theoretical physicist

Friday, October 28, 2011

QOD: A sure way to lose happiness is to want it at the expense of everything else. ~ Bette Davis (née Ruth Elizabeth Davis; Apr. 5, 1908 ~ Oct. 6, 1989), American actress

Thursday, October 27, 2011

QOD: By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work 12 hours a day. ~ Robert Frost (né Robert Lee Frost; Mar. 26, 1974 ~ Jan. 29, 1963), American poet

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

QOD: Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin (né Daniel Joseph Boorstin; Oct. 1, 1914 ~ Feb. 28, 2004), American historian and Librarian of Congress

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

QOD: Jealousy is no more than feeling along against smiling enemies. ~ Elizabeth Bowen (née Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen; June 7, 1899 ~ Feb. 22, 1973), Irish writer

Monday, October 24, 2011

QOD: Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. ~ Simone de Beauvoir (Jan. 9, 1908 ~ Apr. 14, 1986), French writer and existentialist philosopher

Sunday, October 23, 2011

QOD: People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. ~ August Strindberg (né Johan August Strindberg; Jan. 22, 1849 ~ May 14, 1912), Swedish playwright

Friday, October 21, 2011

QOD: An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a narrow field. ~ Niels Bohr (né Niels Henrik David Bohr; Oct. 7, 1885 ~ Nov. 18, 1962), Danish physicist

Thursday, October 20, 2011

QOD: Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. ~ Herbert Hoover (né Herbert Clark Hoover; Aug. 10, 1874 ~ Oct. 20, 1964), 31st President of the United States

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

QOD: Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry.   One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed.   These are fearful odds. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (Dec. 21, 1804 ~ Apr. 19, 1881), British politician and Prime Minister

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

QOD: A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. ~ Charles Spurgeon (né Charles Haddon Spurgeon; June 19, 1834 ~ Jan. 31, 1892), English minister

Monday, October 17, 2011

QOD: If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955), German-born theoretical physicist

Sunday, October 16, 2011

QOD: The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 ~ Oct. 5, 1969), American clergyman

Friday, October 14, 2011

QOD: Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. ~ Fran Lebowitz (née Frances Ann Lebowitz; Oct. 27, 1950), American writer

Thursday, October 13, 2011

QOD: The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.  ~  Bill Maher (né William Maher; b. Jan. 20, 1956), American comedian and political commentator

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

QOD: Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. ~ Josh Billings (né Henry Wheeler Shaw; Apr. 21, 1818 ~ Oct. 14, 1885)

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

QOD: When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else. ~ King Edward VIII (June 23, 1894 ~ May 28, 1972)

Monday, October 10, 2011

QOD: You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something. ~ James Carville (né Chester James Carville; b. Oct. 25, 1944)

Sunday, October 9, 2011

QOD: Friendship and money: oil and water. ~ Mario Puzo (né Mario Gianluigi Puzo; Oct. 15, 1920 ~ July 2, 1999)

Friday, October 7, 2011

QOD: Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time. ~ Malcolm Forbes (né Malcolm Stevenson Forbes; Aug. 19, 1919 ~ Feb. 24, 1990)

Thursday, October 6, 2011

QOD: Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. ~ Steve Jobs (né Steven Paul Jobs; February 24, 1955 ~ October 5, 2011), American co-founder of Apple Computer

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

QOD: The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.  ~  William Ralph Inge (June 6, 1860 ~ Feb. 26, 1954), Anglican priest and author.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

QOD: Character is like a tree and a reputation like a shadow.   The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. ~ Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809 ~ Apr. 15, 1865)

Monday, October 3, 2011

QOD: The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.  ~  Bernard Baruch (né Bernard Mannes Baruch; Aug. 19, 1870 ~ June 20, 1965)

Sunday, October 2, 2011

QOD: History keeps repeating itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.  ~   Clarence Darrow (né Clarence Seward Darrow; Apr. 18, 1857 ~ Mar. 13, 1938)

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

QOD: You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ~ Anton Chekhov (né Anton Pavlovich Chekhov; Jan. 29, 1860 ~ July 15, 1904)

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

QOD: I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~ E. B. White (né Elwyn Brooks White; July 11, 1899 ~ Oct. 1, 1985)

Monday, September 26, 2011

QOD: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ~ John F. Kennedy (né John Fitzgerald Kennedy; May 29, 1917 ~ Nov. 22, 1963)

Sunday, September 25, 2011

QOD: If you nail two things together that have never been nailed together before, some schmuck will buy it from you. ~ George Carlin (né George Denis Patrick Carlin; May 12, 1937 ~ June 22, 2008)

Friday, September 23, 2011

QOD: If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. ~ Eleanor Rooselvelt (née Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Oct. 11, 1884 ~  Nov. 7, 1962)

Thursday, September 22, 2011

QOD: I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ~ Nathan Hale (June 6, 1755 ~ Sept. 22, 1776).  [On this date in 1776, Nathan Hale was hanged by the British as a spy.  He was 21 years old.]

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

QOD: It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. ~ J.K. Rowling (née Joanne Rowling; b. July 31, 1965 )

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

QOD: All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. ~ Casey Stengel (né Charles Dillon Stengel; July 30, 1890 ~ Sept. 29, 1975)

Monday, September 19, 2011

QOD: Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ~ Marie Antoinette (Nov. 2, 1755 ~ Oct. 16, 1793)

Friday, September 16, 2011

QOD: Be careful of reading health books. You might die of a misprint. ~ Mark Twain (né Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Nov. 30, 1835 ~ Apr. 21, 1910), American writer

Thursday, September 15, 2011

QOD: Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem. ~ Woody Allen (né Allan Stewart Konigsberg; b. Dec. 1, 1935)

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

QOD: A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.  ~  Mark Twain (né Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Nov. 30, 1835 ~ Apr. 21, 1910)

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

QOD: Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. ~ Oliver Herford (Dec. 2, 1860 ~ July 5, 1935)

Sunday, September 11, 2011

QOD: A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. ~ Robert Southey (Aug. 12, 1774 ~ Mar. 21, 1843)

Friday, September 2, 2011

QOD: A politician is a man who will double-cross that bridge when he comes to it. ~ Oscar Levant (Dec. 27, 1906 ~ Aug. 14, 1972)

Thursday, September 1, 2011

QOD: He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ~ Edgar R. Fiedler (né Edgar Russell Fiedler, Apr. 21, 1929 ~ Mar. 15, 2003)

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

QOD: Fame is the sum of misapprehensions that accrue around a name. ~ Rainier Maria Rilke (Dec. 4, 1875 ~ Dec. 29, 1926), Austrian poet

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

QOD: Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.  ~   Will Rogers (né William Penn Adair Rogers; Nov. 4, 1879 ~ Aug. 15, 1935)

Monday, August 29, 2011

QOD: Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. ~ Thomas A. Edison (né Thomas Alva Edison; Feb. 11, 1847 ~ Oct. 18, 1931)

Today marks 6 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana.

Sunday, August 28, 2011

QOD: Housework, if you do it right, will kill you. ~ Erma Bombeck (née Erma Louise Bombeck; Feb. 21, 1927 ~ Apr. 22, 1996 )

Friday, August 26, 2011

QOD: Anyone who says they're not afraid at the time of a hurricane is either a fool or a liar, or a little bit of both. ~ Anderson Cooper (b. June 3, 1967)

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

QOD: A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~ Rupert Brooke (Aug. 3, 1887 ~ Apr. 23, 1915)

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

QOD: Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go. ~ Margaret Walker (July 7, 1915 ~ Nov. 30, 1998)

Monday, August 22, 2011

QOD: A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ~ Benjamin Franklin (Jan. 17, 1706 ~ Apr. 17, 1790)

Sunday, August 21, 2011

QOD: Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.  ~  Clara Barton (née Clarissa Harlowe Barton; Dec. 25, 1821 ~ Apr. 12, 1912)

Friday, August 19, 2011

QOD: Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ~ George Orwell (né Eric Arthur Blair, June 25, 1903 ~ Jan. 21, 1950)

Thursday, August 18, 2011

QOD: A man who correctly guesses a woman's age may be smart, but he is not very bright. ~ Lucille Ball (Aug. 6, 1911 ~ Apr. 26, 1989)

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

QOD: The only people who never fail are those who never try. ~ Ilka Chase (Apr. 8, 1905 ~ Feb. 15, 1978)

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

QOD: There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955)

Monday, August 15, 2011

QOD: We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. ~ Mother Teresa (Aug. 26, 1910 ~ Sept. 5, 1997)

Sunday, August 14, 2011

QOD: Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?  ~  Erma Bombeck (Feb. 21, 1927 ~ Apr. 22, 1996)

Friday, August 12, 2011

QOD: Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. ~ Stanisław J. Lec (né Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Lec; Mar. 6, 1909 ~ May 7. 1966)

Thursday, August 11, 2011

QOD: There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.  If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. ~ Enrico Fermi (Sept. 29, 1901 ~ Nov. 28, 1954)

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

QOD: If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. ~ Yogi Berra (né Lawrence Peter Berra; May 12, 1925 ~ Sept. 22, 2015)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

QOD: A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers (née Dorothy Leigh Sayers; June 13, 1893 ~ Dec. 17, 1957)

Monday, August 8, 2011

QOD: He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ~ Victor Hugo (né Victor Marie Hugo; Feb. 26, 1802 ~ May 22, 1885)

Sunday, August 7, 2011

QOD: Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 ~ June 3, 1924)

Friday, August 5, 2011

QOD: The real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old. ~ Jean Kerr (née Bridget Jean Collins; July 10, 1922 ~ Jan. 5, 2003), American writer and humorist

Thursday, August 4, 2011

QOD: I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move. ~ Georgia O'Keeffe (Nov. 15, 1887 ~ Mar. 6. 1986)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

QOD: When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead. ~ Judith Viorst (b. Feb. 2, 1931)

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

QOD: There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic. ~ George Orwell (né Eric Arthur Blair; June 25, 1903 ~ Jan. 21, 1950)

Monday, August 1, 2011

QOD: Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918 ~ Aug. 3, 2008)

Sunday, July 31, 2011

QOD: I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. ~ Barbra Streisand (b. Apr. 24, 1942)

Friday, July 29, 2011

QOD: I found people looked better when they laughed. ~ Mort Sahl (né Morton Lyon Sahl; b. May 11, 1927)

Thursday, July 28, 2011

QOD: Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. ~ George Washington (Feb. 22, 1732 ~ Dec. 14, 1799)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

QOD: There are few things more liberating in life than having your worst fears realized. ~ Conan O'Brien (né Conan Christopher O'Brien; b. Apr. 18, 1963)

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

QOD: A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ~ Oscar Wilde (né Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde; Oct. 16, 1854 ~ Nov. 30, 1900)

Monday, July 25, 2011

QOD: Never think you've seen the last of anything. ~ Eudora Welty (Apr. 13, 1909 ~ July 13, 2001)

Sunday, July 24, 2011

QOD: Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. ~ Benjamin Disraeli (Dec. 21, 1804 ~ Apr. 19, 1881)

Friday, July 22, 2011

QOD: A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.  ~  Sir Winston Churchill (né Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill; Nov. 30, 1874 ~ Jan. 24, 1965)

Thursday, July 21, 2011

QOD: A healthy male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ~ John Updike (Mar. 18, 1932 ~ Jan. 27, 2009)

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

QOD: Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson (Nov. 13, 1950 ~ Dec. 3, 1894)

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

QOD: Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~ William Faulkner (Sept. 15, 1897 ~ July 6, 1962)

Monday, July 18, 2011

QOD: A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.  ~   Wilson Mizner (May 19, 1876 ~ Apr. 3, 1933)

Sunday, July 17, 2011

QOD: Those only are happy who have their mind fixed on some object other than their own happiness. ~ John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 ~ May 8, 1873)

Friday, July 15, 2011

QOD: People who say they don't care what other people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think. ~ George Carlin (né George Denis Patrick Carlin; May 12, 1937 ~ June 22, 2008)

Thursday, July 14, 2011

QOD: Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~ G.B. Stern (née Gladys Bertha Stern; June 17, 1890 ~ Sept. 20, 1973), British novelist

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

QOD: A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~ Winston Churchill (Nov. 30, 1874 ~ Jan. 24, 1965)

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

QOD: I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. ~ W. Somerset Maugham (né William Somerset Maugham; Jan. 25, 1874 ~ Dec. 16, 1965)

Monday July 11, 2011

QOD: But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. ~ Anne Brontë (Jan. 17, 1820 ~ May 28, 1849)

Sunday, July 10, 2011

QOD: People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life. ~ Faith Resnick

Friday, July 8, 2011

QOD: I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.  ~  Katherine Cebrian

Thursday, July 7, 2011

QOD: Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~ Cicero

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

QOD: The truth isn't always beautiful, but the hunger for it is. ~ Nadine Gordimer (b. Nov. 20, 1923)  [Nadine Gordimer died at age 90 on July 13, 2014.]

Tuesday July 5, 2011

QOD: Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ~ Oscar Wilde (né Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde; Oct. 16, 1854 ~ Nov. 30, 1900)

Monday, July 4, 2011 / Fourth of July

QOD: May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country! ~ Daniel Webster (Jan. 18, 1782 ~ Oct. 24, 1852)

Sunday July 3, 2011

QOD: A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man.  But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. ~ Sir Winston Churchill (né Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill; Nov. 30, 1874 ~ Jan. 24, 1965)

Friday, July 1, 2011

QOD: Everybody know they are going to die, but no one really believes it. ~ Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 ~ Jan. 11, 2004)

Thursday, June 30, 2011

QOD: Age is strictly a case of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ~ Jack Benny (né Benjamin Kubelsky; Feb. 14, 1894 ~ Dec. 26, 1974), American comedian and actor

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

QOD: Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. ~ Franklin Pierce (Nov. 23, 1804 ~ Oct. 8, 1869)

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

QOD: Overnight is an eternity in politics. ~ James Baker (né James Addison Baker, III; b. Apr. 28, 1930), United States Secretary of State under President George H.W. Bush.

Monday, June 27, 2011

QOD: Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. ~ Baron de Montesquieu (né Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu; Jan. 18, 1689 ~ Feb. 10, 1755)

Sunday June 26, 2011

QOD: Vote for the man who promises the least; he'll be the least disappointing. ~ Bernard Baruch (né Bernard Mannes Baruch; Aug. 19, 1870 ~ June 20, 1965)

Friday June 24, 2011

QOD: Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~ Malachy McCourt (né Malchy Gerald McCourt; b. Sept. 20, 1931)

Thursday, June 23, 2011

QOD: A bargain is something you can't use at a price you can't resist. ~ Franklin P. Jones (1908 ~ 1980)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

QOD: Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ~ Jules Renard (né Pierre-Jules Renard; Feb. 22, 1864 ~ May 22, 1910)

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

QOD: G~d does not play dice with the universe. ~ Albert Einstein // Einstein, stop telling G~d what to do! ~ Niels Bohr (né Niels Henrik David Bohr; Oct. 7, 1885 ~ Nov. 18, 1962)

Monday, June 20, 2011

QOD: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955)

Sunday June 19, 2011

QOD: My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~ Clarence B. Kelland (né Clarence Budington Kelland; July 11, 1881 ~ Feb. 18, 1964)

Friday, June 17, 2011

QOD: The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. ~ Dorothy Parker (née Dorothy Rothschild; Aug. 22, 1893 ~ June 7, 1967)

Thursday, June 16, 2011

QOD: If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. ~ Ivan Turgenev (Nov. 9, 1818 ~ Sept. 3, 1883)

Wednesday June 15, 2011

QOD: Sports is the toy department of life. ~ Jimmy Cannon (Apr. 10, 1909 ~ Dec. 5, 1973)

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

QOD: A problem well put is half solved. ~ John Dewey (Oct 20, 1859 ~ June 1, 1952)

Monday, June 13, 2011

QOD: I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. ~ Isaac Asimov (Jan. 2, 1920 ~ Apr. 6, 1992)

Sunday, June 12, 2011

QOD: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Friday, June 10, 2011

QOD: Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species. ~ W. Somerset Maugham (né William Somerset Maugham; Jan. 25, 1874 ~ Dec. 16, 1965)

Thursday, June 9, 2011

QOD: The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.  ~  Oscar Wilde (né Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde; Oct. 16, 1854 ~ Nov. 30, 1900)

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

QOD: Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Elizabeth Cady; Nov. 12, 1815 ~ Oct. 26, 1902)

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

QOD: There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.  ~  E.W. Howe (né Edgar Watson Howe; May 3, 1853 ~ Oct. 3, 1937)

Monday, June 6, 2011

QOD: There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world.  Love of books is the best of all. ~ Jackie Kennedy  (née Jaqueline Lee Bouvier; July 28, 1929 ~ May 19, 1994)

Sunday June 5, 2011

QOD: The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people, they think it's their fault. ~ Henry Kissinger (né Heinz Alfred Kissinger; b. May 27, 1923)

Friday, June 3, 2011

QOD: Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ John F. Kennedy (né John Fitzgerald Kennedy; May 29, 1917 ~ Nov. 22, 1963)

Thursday, June 2, 2011

QOD: Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. ~ John Updike (né John Hoyer Updike; Mar. 18, 1932 ~ Jan. 27, 2009)

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

QOD: The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. ~ Thomas Merton (Jan. 31, 1915 ~ Dec. 10, 1968)

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

QOD: Graduation is a tough day for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. ~ Erma Bombeck (née Erma Louise Fiste; Feb. 21, 1927 ~ Apr. 22, 1996)

Monday, May 30, 2011

QOD: A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (née Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Oct. 11, 1884 ~ Nov. 7, 1962)

Sunday, May 29, 2011

QOD: A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (né Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Jan. 30, 1882 ~ Apr. 12, 1945)

Friday, May 27, 2011

QOD: Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. ~ Langston Hughes (né James Mercer Langston Hughes; Feb. 1, 1901 ~ May 22, 1967)

Thursday, May 26, 2011

QOD: Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. ~ Graham Greene (né Henry Graham Green; Oct. 2, 1904 ~ Apr. 3, 1991)

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

QOD: As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers (née Dorothy Leigh Sayer; June 13, 1893 ~ Dec. 17, 1957)

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

QOD: Change is the law of life.  And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ~ John F. Kennedy (né John Fitzgerald Kennedy; May 29, 1917 ~ Nov. 22, 1963)

Monday, May 23, 2011

QOD: A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. ~ William Hazlitt (Apr. 10, 1778 ~ Sept. 18, 1830), British essayist

Sunday, May 22, 2011

QOD: Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational ~ but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ~ Judith Viorst (b. Feb. 2, 1931)

Friday May 20, 2011

QOD: Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ~ Thornton Wilder (né Thornton Niven Wilder; Apr. 17, 1897 ~ Dec. 7, 1975)

Thursday, May 19, 2011

QOD: In politics stupidity is not a handicap. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte I (né Napoleon Bonaparte; Aug. 15, 1769 ~ May 5, 1821)

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

QOD: Every calamity is overcome by endurance. ~ Virgil

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

QOD: Alcohol is a very necessary element. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. ~ Geroge Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 ~ Nov. 2, 1950)

Monday, May 16, 2011

QOD: An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. ~ Will Rogers (né William Penn Adair Rogers; Nov. 4, 1879 ~ Aug. 15, 1935)

Thursday, May 12, 2011

QOD: Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.  ~  Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955)

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

QOD: Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle. ~ G.K. Chesterton (né Gilbert Keith Chesterton; May 29, 1874 ~ June 14, 1936), British author

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

QOD: Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one. ~ Bel Kaufman (who turns 100 today)  [She died in 2014 at age 103]

Monday, May 9, 2011

QOD: Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.  ~  Sir Winston Churchill (né Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill; Nov. 30, 1874 ~ Jan. 24, 1965)

Sunday, May 8, 2011 / Mother's Day

QOD: An error dies not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. ~ John F. Kennedy (May 29, 1917 ~ Nov. 22, 1963)

Friday, May 6, 2011

QOD: Dear Future Generations: Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum. ~ Kurt Vonnegut (Nov. 11, 1922 ~ Apr. 11, 2007)

Thursday, May 5, 2011

QOD: Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. ~ Alan King (Dec. 26, 1927 ~ May 9, 2004)

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

QOD: It's hard to tell the truth, for although there is one, it is alive and constantly changes its face. ~ Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 ~ June 3, 1924)

Tuesday May 3, 2011

QOD: Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ~ Henri Bergson (né Henri-Louis Bergson; Oct. 18, 1859 ~ Jan. 4, 1941)

Monday, May 2, 2011

QOD: Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.  ~  Kin Hubbard (né Frank McKinney Hubbard; Sept. 1, 1868 ~ Dec. 26, 1930)

Sunday, May 1, 2011

QOD: Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~ Anne Bradstreet (née Anne Dudley; Mar. 20, 1612 ~ Sept. 16, 1762)

Friday, April 29, 2011

QOD: To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die. ~ Cicero

Thursday, April 28, 2011

QOD: There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~ Arnot Sheppard

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

QOD: Everyone is a millionaire where promises are concerned. ~ Ovid

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

QOD: The secret of being boring is to say everything. ~ Voltaire (né François-Marie Arouet; Nov. 21, 1694 ~ May 30, 1778)

Monday, April 25, 2011

QOD: The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. ~ Chuck Palahniuk (b. Feb. 21, 1962)

Sunday, April 24, 2011

QOD: I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy."  I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate.  It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. ~ Leo C. Rosten (né Leo Calvin Rosten; Apr. 11, 1908 ~ Feb. 19, 1997)

Friday, April 22, 2011

QOD: Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. ~ Bill Watterson (b. July 5, 1958)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

QOD: I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. ~ Robert McCloskey (Sept. 14, 1914 ~ June 30, 2003)

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

QOD: Do vegetarians eat animal crackers? ~ Author Unknown

Monday, April 18, 2011

QOD: The only sin is mediocrity. ~ Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 ~ Apr. 1, 1991)

Sunday, April 17, 2011

QOD: That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history it the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. ~ Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894 ~ Nov. 22, 1963)

Friday, April 15, 2011 / Tax Day

QOD: If you read a lot of books, you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you are not considered well viewed. ~ Lily Tomlin (b. Sept. 1, 1939)

Thursday, April 14, 2011

QOD: A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. ~ John C. Maxwell (b. Feb. 20, 1947)

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

QOD: The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.  ~  René Descartes (Mar. 31, 1596 ~ Feb. 11, 1650), French philosopher

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

QOD: The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~ Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 ~ Feb. 2, 1970)

Monday, April 11, 2011

QOD: You can observe a lot by just watching. ~ Yogi Berra (né Lawrence Peter Yogi, May 12, 1925 ~ Sept. 22, 2015)

Sunday, April 10, 2011

QOD: People will buy anything that is one to a customer. ~ Sinclair Lewis (né Harry Sinclair Lewis; Feb. 7, 1885 ~ Jan. 10, 1951), American author

Friday, April 8, 2011

QOD: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. ~ William Shakespeare (Apr. 23, 1564 ~ Apr. 23, 1616)

Thursday, April 7, 2011

QOD: There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ~ Oscar Wilde (né Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde; Oct. 16, 1854 ~ Nov. 30, 1900)

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

QOD: Nothing makes you feel that you've overstayed your welcome like a flower arrangement that has withered and died. ~ Holly Brubach

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

QOD: Patience is a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue. ~ Ambrose Bierce (June 24, 1842 ~ disappeared 1914)

Monday, April 4, 2011

QOD: When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter. ~ Steven Wright (b. Dec. 6, 1955)

Sunday, April 3, 2011

QOD: Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. ~ Thomas Nash (June 20, 1593 ~ Apr. 4, 1647)

Friday, April 1, 2011 / April Fool's Day

QOD: Never think you've seen the last of anything. ~ Eudora Welty (Apr. 13, 1909 ~ July 23, 2001)

Thursday, March 31, 2011

QOD: The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. ~ Patrick Young

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

QOD: He who is in love with himself at least has this advantage ~ he won't have many rivals. ~ George C. Lichtenberg (né Georg Christoph Lichtenberg; July 1, 1742 ~ Feb. 24, 1799), German physicist and satirist

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

QOD: Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ~ Les Brown (né Leslie Calvin Brown; b. Feb. 17, 1945), American motivational speaker

Monday, March 28, 2011

QOD: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955)

Sunday, March 27, 2011

QOD: The most effective way to do it, is to do it. ~ Amelia Earhart (July 24, 1897 ~ disappeared July 2, 1937)

Friday, March 25, 2011

QOD: Originality is undetected plagiarism. ~ William Ralph Inge (June 6, 1860  ~ Feb. 26, 1954), Anglican priest and author

Thursday, March 24, 2011

QOD: A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine (July 8, 1621 ~ Apr. 13, 1695), French fabulist

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

QOD: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.  ~  Benjamin Franklin (Jan. 17, 1706 ~ Apr. 17, 1790)

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

QOD: A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. ~ Henny Youngman (né Henry Youngman; Mar. 16, 1906 ~ Feb. 24, 1998)

Monday, March 21, 2011

QOD: Every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward. ~ Thomas Edison (né Thomas Alva Edison; Feb. 11, 1847 ~ Oct. 18, 1931)

Sunday, March 20, 2011

QOD: If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence. ~ James Woods (né James Howard Woods; b. Apr. 18, 1947)

Friday, March 18, 2011

QOD: It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. ~ Joe Moore

Today's Theme: All No-ING. Each of the theme clues is a common phrase except the "ING" is missing, giving an All Knowing punny new phrase.

17. Lodging Surplus? = EXTRA INNS. The common phrase is Extra Innings.

20. Versace Creation? = ITALIAN DRESS. The common phrase is Italian Dressing.

37. Misplaced Yogi and Smokey? = LOST ONE'S BEARS. The common phrase is Lost One's Bearings.

58. Plant at Sotheby's? = BRITISH SHILL. The common phrase is British Shilling. Don't remember seeing this coin on my last trip to London.

62. Investment in Fine Fabric? = SILK STOCK. The common phrase is Silk Stocking. It also reminds me of the Crime Time after Prime Time show I used to watch called Silk Stalkings.

48-D. Pleasure Trip, and a Hint to This Puzzle's Theme = OUTING.

Across:
1. Hardly a Walk in the Park = TREK. My initial thought was Easy.

5. “American ____” = IDOL. I have never watched American Idol.

9. Provoke = ROIL. Not a word I use, but a good word all the same.

13. Russo of “Tin Cup” = RENE. I first saw her on the cover of Cosmopolitan.

14. Heavyweight Fighter? = SUMO. As in a Sumo wrestler.

15. Snoring Cause, Perhaps = APNEA. It is more common than one would realize.

19. Settles In = NESTS. It took a while for this answer to reveal itself.

22. Blotter Letters = AKA. Oh, as a police blotter! AKA stands for Also Known As. My favorite clue of the puzzle.

25. However, Contracted = THO.

26. Bygone Chrysler = LE BARON.

27. Target of Military Press = DELT. No idea.

29. Animal Rights Org. = PETA. Stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. To draw attention, they often have their members stand naked on street corners.

31. Penn et al.: Abbr. = STNS. Oh, as in Penn Station, not the university.

32. Backed Up, In a Way = ON DISC.

35. Quad Building = DORM.

42. Limo Occasion = PROM.

43. Maker of Pianos and Bikes = YAMAHA. I knew that Steinway didn’t make motorcycles!

45. Pacific Salmon = COHO. Yummy!

49. Scholarship Drive Donor = GRAD.

51. Carnival Starting Point? = PIER. As in taking a cruise on a Carnival liner.

52. Blood Specification = ONE UNIT.

54. “Gotcha!” = AHA!

57. Hydroelectric Structure = DAM.

61. Busted = RAN IN. // And 40-Down: BUST = RAID.

66. _____ Acid = AMINO. Protein’s building blocks.

67. “Night” Author Wiesel = ELIE. We haven’t seen him in crosswords for a long time. He used to make frequent appearances.

68. Way-Back-When Time = YORE. I wanted ONCE.

69. Coat Rack Items = PEGS. I really wanted Hats. I think of Pegs as being an integral part of a coat rack.

70. Just Slightly = A TAD.

71. Classic Theater Name = ROXY. I thought of LOEW.

Down:
1. What’s A Little Past Due? = TRE. Oh, the Italian lesson for the day. Three is the number that is a little past two.

2. Name Fit For a King? = REX. Latin for King.

3. Tonsillitis M.D. = ENT. Stands for Ear, Nose and Throat.

4. “Felicity” Star Russell = KERI.

5. Thomas of the NBA = ISAIAH. I remember him from years ago.

6. Maker of Tires and Tennis Balls = DUNLOP.

7. Present Opening? = OMNI. I knew this immediately! Omnipresent.

8. Silicon Valley City = LOS ALTOS.

9. Grammy Category = R AND B. Stands for Rhythm and Blues.

10. Met Expectations? = OPERAS. This was so easy, I almost missed it.

11. Supplement = INSERT.

12. Reveals = LETS ON.

16. Clubs: Abbr. = ASSNS. Stands for Associations.

18. One of Two Authorized U.S. iPhone Carriers = ATT. The other is Verizon.

21. Close at Hand = NEAR BY.

22. Flap = ADO. Much Ado About Nothing.

23. ____ Ration = KEN-L. Dog food brand, Ken-L Ration.

24. Designer Gucci = ALDO.

28. “My Country ___ …” = TIS. From the song, My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, Of Thee I Sing …”

30. Swelling = EDEMA.

33. Additive Sold at Pep Boys = STP.

34. Pembroke or Cardigan Dogs = CORGIS. Favorite dog of the Queen.

36. Start of an Apology = MEA. As in mea culpa, mea culpa!

38. View from Edinburg = NORTH SEA. Good clue.

39. Band Aid? = AMP.

41. 2000 World Series Stadium = SHEA.

44. Ready For Battle = ARM.

45. Army Attack Helicopter = COBRA.

46. Cloverleaf Component = ON RAMP. Helps you get in the interstate.

47. Duff = HEINIE. Oh, as in your butt! Get off your duff and get to work!

50. Flowering Plant Used for Food by the Aztecs = DAHLIA. I was not aware of this fact.

53. Yucatán Youngsters = NIÑOS. The puzzle’s Spanish lesson.

55. Hoofed It = HIKED.

56. Roker and Rosen = ALs. Both are named Al.

59. Bank Deposit? = SILT. Oh, as in a river bank!

60. About 10 Trillion Kil. = LTYR. Stands for Light Year. Who knew?

63. Valentine Symbols = OOO. Usually see XOXOX, for Hugs and Kisses. Not sure which is which.

64. ‘80s-‘90s Honda Model = CRX. I let the perps fill this in for me.

65. Critical = KEY. Oh, as an essential element, not to be critical of something.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

QOD: If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~ Stanisław J. Lec (né Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Lec; Mar. 6, 1909 ~ May 7, 1966), Polish poet

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

QOD: Harmony seldom makes a headline. ~ Silas Bent (Oct. 10, 1820 ~ Aug. 26, 1887), American naval officer

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 / Ides of March

QOD: Good artists borrow, great artist steal.  ~  Pablo Picasso (Oct. 25, 1881 ~ Apr. 8, 1973)

Monday, March 14, 2011

QOD: A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ~ Benjamin Franklin (Jan. 17, 1706 ~ Apr. 17, 1790)

Sunday, March 13, 2011

QOD: Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both. ~ Dorothy Parker (née Dorothy Rothschild; Aug. 22, 1893 ~ June 7, 1967)

Friday, March 11, 2011

QOD: A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ~ John Foster Dulles (Feb. 25, 1888 ~ May 24, 1959), 52nd United States Secretary of State

Thursday, March 10, 2011

QOD: Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are.  ~  François Mauriac (né François Charles Mauriac; Oct. 11, 1885 ~ Sept. 1, 1970), French novelist

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

QOD: The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Mar. 8, 1841 ~ Mar. 6, 1935)

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

QOD: If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ~ George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 ~ Nov. 2, 1950)

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

QOD: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 ~ Nov. 2, 1950)

Monday, February 28, 2011

QOD: Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit. ~ Helena Rubinstein (née  Chaja Rubinstein; Dec. 25, 1872 ~ Apr. 1, 1965)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

QOD: The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. ~ Milan Kundera (b. Apr. 1, 1929), Czech writer  [Milan Kundera died in Paris, France on July 11, 2023 at age 94.]

Friday, February 25, 2011

QOD: The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude. ~ Arnold Glasgow (1905 ~ 1998), American author

Thursday, February 24, 2011

QOD: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ~ Oscar Wilde (né Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde; Oct. 16, 1854 ~ Nov. 30, 1900)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

QOD: Anything you are good at contributes to happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell (né Bertrand Arthur William Russell; May 18, 1872 ~ Feb. 2, 1970)

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

QOD: Music is the shorthand of emotion. ~ Leo Tolstoy (Sept.9, 1828 ~ Nov. 20, 1910)

Monday, February 21, 2011 / Presidents' Day

QOD: Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of. ~ Bill Moyers (né Billy Don Moyers; b. June 5, 1934), American journalist and political commentator.  He served as the 9th White House Press Secretary during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration

Sunday, February 20, 2011

QOD: The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. ~ Bill Nye, the Science Guy (né William Sanford Nye; b. Nov. 27, 1955)

Friday, February 18, 2011

QOD: The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~ Anna Quindlen (née Anna Marie Quindlen; b. July 8, 1952)

Today's Theme: Very Punny, Mr. President! Each of the theme answers is a pun on a common phrase by replacing a President's name with one of the words.

18. Presidential putdown? = GRANT SLAM. The common phrase is Grand Slam. Ulysses S. Grant is the substitute President.

23. Presidential advisers? = MADISON CABINET. The common phrase is Medicine Cabinet. James Madison is the substitute President.

32. Presidential ATM sign? = FORD DEPOSIT ONLY. The common phrase is For Deposit Only. Gerald Ford is the Substitute President, literally, since he was the only president who was never elected for either the Office of President or Vice-President.

48. Presidential university? = COOLIDGE CAMPUS. The common phrase is College Campus. Calvin Coolidge is the substitute President.

53. Presidential belt-tightening? = NIXON CUTS. The common phrase is Nicks and Cuts. Richard Nixon is the Substitute President, who left office in disgrace and was followed by Gerald Ford.

Across:

1. Timeworn Observation = ADAGE.

6. “Pronto!” = ASAP. Stands for: As Soon As Possible.

10. Party Person = HOST. Meh

14. Paganini’s Birthplace = GENOA.

15. One of an Historic Seagoing Trio = NIÑA. Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue along with his fleet of three ships ~ The Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

16. Not Deceived By = ON TO.

17. Los _____: City near San Jose = ALTOS. I had to wait for the perps to give me most of the letters in this response.

20. 1926 Channel Swimmer = EDERLE. Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim the English Channel.

22. Bernardo’s Girl in “West Side Story” = ANITA. Maria also fit into the space provided.

26. Trademark Cousins = PATENTS.

27. Trains on Supports = ELS.

28. “Discreet Music” Composer = ENO. Brian Eno.

29. Movie Beekeeper = ULEE.

30. People Person? = CELEB. Reference, I suppose to People magazine.

39. “Contact” Author = SAGAN. As in Carl Sagan. Contact was made into a movie starring Jody Foster.

40. “uh-uh” = NOPE.

41. Ex-Saudi Ruler ___ Saud = IBN. The word literally means “son of.”

44. Managed = RAN.

45. Onetime California Gubernatorial Candidate Huffington = ARIANNA. She also has a blog called the Huffington Report, which she just sold to AOL for an enormous sum of money.

51. Biblical Words Before and After “For” = EYE. As in the phrase: An Eye for an Eye.

52. Title Subject of a G.B. Shaw Play = St. Joan. George Bernard Shaw wrote a play about Joan of Arc.

56. Blitz Attachment = KRIEG. As in a Blitzkrieg.

59. Prefix with “Language” in a 1993 Comedy Best-Seller = SEIN. Jerry Seinfeld’s book. Len Lesser, the actor who portrayed Jerry’s Uncle Leo, died yesterday. He was 88 years old.

60. Gaston’s god = DIEU. French lesson for the day.

61. Perform Penance = ATONE.

62. Scraps = ORTS.

63. U. of Maryland Athlete = TERP. Short for Terrapin, which is some sort of reptile. This has appeared in crosswords past.

64. Streisand Title Role = YENTL.

Down:

1. Turkish Honorific = AGA.

2. Wilmington’s St. = DEL. Wilmington is in Delaware.

3. Lover of Armies? = ANTEATERS. I liked this clue!

4. Acts of Kindness = GOOD DEEDS.

5. Enter Cautiously = EASE IN.

6. Americans in Paris, e.g. = ANGLOS. Not the first thing that came to my mind.

7. Femme Fatale = SIREN.

8. Book Collector’s Suffix = ANA. Not quite sure what this one means.

9. Put Down In Writing? = PAN. Great clue! I initially thought of PEN, but Pan means to put down, to criticize.

10. Mubarak of Egypt = HOSNI. This is a timely clue/answer considering the turmoil in the Middle East and the fact that Mubarak stepped down as President of Egypt last week.

11. Surfing Without a Board, Maybe = ON LINE. As in surfing the ‘net.

12. New York’s ______ Island = STATEN. I first thought of Coney Island and Long Island, before Staten occurred to me.

13. T in a Sandwich = TOMATO. As in a BLT.

19. Typewriter Feature = TAB SET.

21. Queue After Q = RST. As in the alphabetical sequence

23. Opposite of Bueno = MALA. Good versus Bad.

24. Psychic Couple = CEES. Not keen on this type of clue. The word “Psychic” has two letter “Cs.”

25. “That’s ____ Ask” = ALL. As in the phrase: That’s All I Ask…

26. Sta-___: Fabric Softener = PUF. Sta-Puf is not a product I am familiar with.

30. Hoodwink = CON.

31. Ruling Family Name in 19th-Century Europe = BONAPART.

33. Connecticut Coastal Town Near Stamford = DARIEN. I lived near there when I lived in New Haven.

34. “Yikes!” = EGAD!

35. Qualm = PANG.

36. Like Some Workers in an Open Shop = NON-UNION.

37. HNO Employees = LPNS. Stands for Licensed Practical Nurses.

38. Thumbs-Up Vote = YEA.

41. Response to a Doubting Thomas = I CAN SO!

42. More Scrawny = BONIER.

43. Prohibitive Door Sign = NO EXIT. It would also be prohibitive to open the emergency door on an airplane while in flight.

45. Misbehaves = ACTS UP.

46. British Rule in India = RAJ.

47. Post-Fall Reassurances = I’M OKAY.

49. Interpol Headquarters = LYONS. A learning moment for me. I was not aware that this is where Interpol was located.

50. Glyceride, e.g. = ESTER.

54. Setting on the Mississippi: Abbr. = CDT. Stands for Central Daylight Time.

55. A Lost Driver May Hang One, Briefly = UIE. A U-Turn, I suppose.

57. M.D.’s Specialty = ENT. Stands for Ear, Nose and Throat specialist.

58. Styling Stuff = GEL.