Friday, December 12, 2014

QOD:  To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.  ~  Gustave Flaubert (Dec. 12, 1821 ~ May 8, 1880), French novelist

Thursday, December 11, 2014

QOD:  We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.  ~  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Dec. 11, 1918 ~ Aug. 3, 2008), Russian author and recipient of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

QOD:  In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don’t understand.  ~  Kenneth Branagh (b. Dec. 10, 1960), Northern Irish actor

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

QOD:  A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.  ~  Grace Hopper (née Grace Brewster Murray; Dec. 9, 1906 ~ Jan. 1, 1992), American rear admiral and computer scientist

Monday, December 8, 2014

QOD:  There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.  ~  Jim Morrison (né James Douglas Morrison; Dec. 8, 1943 ~ July 3, 1971), American musician

Sunday, December 7, 2014

QOD:  The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.  ~  Tom Waits (né Thomas Alan Waits; b. Dec. 7, 1949), American musician