Friday, December 13, 2013 / Friday the 13th

QOD:  Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.  ~  Heinrich Heine (né Christian Johann Heinrich Heine; Dec. 13, 1797 ~ Feb. 17, 1856), German poet

Thursday, December 12, 2013

QOD:  Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.  ~  Gustave Flaubert (Dec. 12, 1821 ~ May 8, 1880), French writer

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

QOD:  Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.  ~  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918 ~ Aug. 3, 2008), Russian novelist and recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

QOD:  Dogs are better than humans beings because they know but do not tell.  ~  Emily Dickinson (Dec. 10, 1830 ~ May 15, 1886), American poet

Monday, December 9, 2013

QOD:  Humans are allergic to change.  They love to say, “We’ve always done it this way,”  I try to fight that.  That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.  ~  Grace Hopper (née Grace Brewster Hopper; Dec. 9, 1906 ~ Jan. 1, 1992); American rear admiral and computer scientist

Sunday, December 8, 2013

QOD:  If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.  ~  Jim Morrison (né James Douglas Morrison; Dec. 8, 1943 ~ July 3, 1971), American singer-songwriter