Friday, November 15, 2013

QOD:  I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew.  I don’t want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.  ~  Felix Frankfurter (Nov. 15, 1882 ~ Feb. 22, 1965), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Thursday, November 14, 2013

QOD:  Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.  ~  P.J. O’Rourke (né Patrick Jake O'Rourke; b. Nov. 14, 1947), American political satirist

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

QOD:  Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.  ~  Robert Louis Stevenson (Nov. 13, 1850 ~ Dec. 3, 1894), Scottish novelist

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

QOD:  The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.  ~  Grace Kelly (née Grace Patricia Kelly; Nov. 12, 1929 ~ Sept. 14, 1982), American actress

Monday, November 11, 2013 / Veteran's Day

QOD:  Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.  ~  Kurt Vonnegut (Nov. 11, 1922 ~ Apr. 11, 2007), American writer

Sunday, November 10, 2013

QOD:  Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.  ~  Friedrich Schiller (né Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller; Nov. 10, 1759 ~ May 9, 1805)