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 8 July 2016

Friday, July 8, 2016

QOD:  I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with the head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.  ~  John D. Rockefeller (July 8, 1839 ~ May 23, 1937)

Thursday 7 July 2016

Thursday, July 7, 2016

QOD:  Great art picks up where nature ends.  ~  Marc Chagall (July 7, 1887 ~ Mar. 28, 1985)

Wednesday 6 July 2016

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

QOD:  The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service.  I could lose your mail for half that.  ~  Pat Paulsen (nĂ© Patrick Layton Paulsen; July 6, 1927 ~ Apr. 24, 1997)

Tuesday 5 July 2016

Tuesday, July 5, 2016

QOD:  Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.  ~  P.T. Barnum (nĂ© Phineas Taylor Barnum; July 5, 1810 ~ Apr. 7, 1891)

Monday 4 July 2016

Monday, July 4, 2016 / 4th of July

QOD:  The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married and the married wish to be dead.  ~  Ann Landers (nĂ©e Esther Pauline Lederer; July 4, 1918 ~ June 22, 2002)

Sunday 3 July 2016

Sunday, June 3, 2016

QOD:  In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.  ~  Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 ~ June 3, 1924)