QOD

This blog purely for my own amusement. I like to start the day with a quote, be it amusing, inspiration, or simply something that caught my fancy.

On occasion, I might also include some commentary on the day's crossword puzzle that is published in the Los Angeles Times.

Friday, 8 July 2011

Friday, July 8, 2011

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

Thursday, 7 July 2011

Thursday, July 7, 2011

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

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

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, 5 July 2011

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, 4 July 2011

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, 3 July 2011

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)