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 6 January 2023

Friday, January 6, 2023

QOD:  People know novelists are liars.  And that’s why we can be trusted to tell the truth.  ~  E.L. Doctorow (né Edgar Lawrence Doctorow; Jan. 6, 1931 ~ July 21, 2015), American novelist

Thursday 5 January 2023

Thursday, January 5, 2023

QOD:  The meaning of the world lies outside the world.  ~  David Berman (né David Cloud Berman; Jan. 4, 1967 ~ Aug. 7, 2019), American musician, poet and cartoonist

Wednesday 4 January 2023

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

QOD:  What we know is a drop; what we don’t know is an ocean.  ~  Sir Isaac Newton (Jan. 4, 1643 ~ Mar. 31, 1727), English mathematician and physicist

Tuesday 3 January 2023

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

QOD:  All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.  ~  J.R.R. Tolkien (né John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; Jan. 3, 1892 ~ Sept. 2, 1973), English author

Monday 2 January 2023

Monday, January 2, 2023

QOD:  To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers ~ or both.  ~  Elizabeth Charles (née Elizabeth Rundle; Jan. 2, 1828 ~ Mar. 28, 1896), British novelist

Sunday 1 January 2023

Sunday, January 1, 2023 / New Year's Day

QOD:  Sophistication is upscale conformity.  ~  James Richardson (b. Jan. 1, 1950), American poet