Friday, February 12, 2016

QOD:  The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.  ~  Charles Darwin (Feb. 12, 1809 ~ Apr. 19, 1882), British naturalist

Thursday, February 11, 2016

QOD:  The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.  ~  Thomas A. Edison (né Thomas Alva Edison; Feb. 11, 1847 ~ Oct. 18, 1931), American inventor

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

QOD:  Sometimes it’s more important to be human, then to have good taste.  ~  Bertolt Brecht (Feb. 10, 1898 ~ Aug. 14, 1956), German playwright

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 / Mardi Gras

QOD:  In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.  ~  J.M. Coetzee (né John Maxwell Coetzee; b. Feb. 9, 1940), South African author and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature

Monday, February 8, 2016

QOD:  We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.  ~  Jules Verne (Feb. 8, 1828 ~ Mar. 24, 1905), French novelist