Tuesday, December 12, 2023

QOD:  Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.  ~  Gustave Flaubert (Dec. 12, 1821 ~ May 8, 1880), French novelist

Monday, December 12, 2022

QOD: The older we get, the more we appreciate the continuity of friendship ~ the fortunate gift of sharing the present with the nostalgia.  ~  Helen Frankenthaler (Dec. 12, 1928 ~Dec. 27, 2011), American artist and abstract painter

Sunday, December 12, 2021

QOD:  To make anything interesting you simply have to look at it long enough.  ~  Gustave Flaubert (Dec. 12, 1821 ~ May 8, 1880), French novelist

Thursday, December 12, 2019

QOD:  A bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed ~ while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.  ~  Vasily Grossman (Dec. 12, 1905 ~ Sept. 14, 1964), Russian writer and journalist

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

QOD:  To learn something new every day is still exciting.  ~  Ed Koch (né Edward Irving Koch; Dec. 12, 1924 ~ Feb. 1, 2013), American politician and Mayor of New York City

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

QOD for the First Night of Chanukah:  May the lights of Chanukah usher in a better world for all humankind.  ~  Author Unknown

Monday, December 12, 2016

QOD:  I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.  ~  Gustave Flaubert (Dec. 12, 1821 ~ May 8, 1880)

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 12, 2013

QOD:  Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.  ~  Gustave Flaubert (Dec. 12, 1821 ~ May 8, 1880), French writer

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

QOD:  Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.  ~  Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 ~ May 8, 1880), French novelist

Monday, December 12, 2011

QOD: We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. ~ Joan Didion (b. Dec.  5, 1934), American writer  [Joan Didion died on December 23, 2021 at age 87.]

Sunday, December 12, 2010

QOD: War is G~d's way of teaching Americans geography.  ~  Ambrose Bierce (né Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce; June 24, 1842 ~ disappeared 1914), American writer