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 26 April 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013

QOD:  A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.  ~  William Shakespeare (Apr. 26, 1564 ~ Apr. 23, 1616)

Thursday 25 April 2013

Thursday, April 25, 2013

QOD:  The only thing better than singing is more singing.  ~  Ella Fitzgerald (Apr. 25, 1918 ~ June 15, 1996), African-American jazz singer

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

QOD:  Style is a fraud.  I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.  ~  Willem de Kooning (Apr. 24, 1904 ~ Mar. 19, 1997)

Tuesday 23 April 2013

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

QOD:  Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.  ~  Max Planck (né Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck; Apr. 23, 1857 ~ Oct. 4, 1947), recipient of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics

Monday 22 April 2013

Monday, April 22, 2013

QOD:  The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.  ~  Vladimir Nabokov (Apr. 22, 1899 ~ July 2, 1977)