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 29 January 2016

Friday, January 29, 2016

QOD:  If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.  Then quit.  There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.  ~  W.C. Fields (né William Claude Dukenfield; Jan. 29, 1880 ~ Dec, 25 1946), American actor

Thursday 28 January 2016

Thursday, January 28, 2016

QOD:  I love my past, I love my present.  I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.  ~  Colette (née Sidonie Gabrielle Colette; Jan. 28, 1873 ~ Aug. 3, 1954), French author

Wednesday 27 January 2016

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

QOD:  I can’t go back to yesterday ~ because I was a different person then.  ~  Lewis Carroll (né Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; Jan. 27, 1832 ~ Jan. 14, 1898), British author

Monday 25 January 2016

Monday, January 25, 2016

QOD:  If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.  ~  Virginia Woolf (Jan. 25, 1882 ~ Mar. 28, 1941), British writer

Sunday 24 January 2016

Sunday, January 24, 2016

QOD:  The only way not to think about money it to have a great deal of it.  ~  Edith Wharton (Jan. 24, 1862 ~ Aug. 11, 1937), American author