Monday May 20, 2024

QOD:  Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.  ~  Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 ~ Aug. 18, 1850), French novelist

Friday, May 20, 2023

QOD:  When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.  ~  Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 ~ June 26, 2012), American author and filmmaker

Friday, May 20, 2022

QOD:  The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing ~ and then marry him.  ~  Cher (née Cherilyn Sarkisian; b. May 20, 1946), American singer and actress

Thursday, May 20, 2021

QOD:  The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do never does what he can do. ~ John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 ~ May 8, 1873), English philosopher

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

QOD:  Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.  ~  Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 ~ Aug. 18, 1850), French novelist

Monday, May 20, 2019

QOD:  Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. ~  Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 ~ Aug. 18, 1850)

Sunday, May 20, 2018

QOD:  Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men. ~ John Stuart Mill (May 20, 1806 ~ May 8, 1873)

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

QOD:  My passion lies with whatever I’m doing at the time.  I only see what is in front of me.  Cher (née Cherilyn Sarkisian; b. May 20, 1946)

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

QOD:  Husbands are like fires ~ they go out when they’re left unattended.  ~  Cher (née Cherilyn Sarkisian; b. May 20, 1946)

Monday, May 20, 2013

QOD:  If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends.  You talk to your enemies.  ~  Moshe Dayan (May 20, 1915 ~ October 16, 1981), Israeli military leader and politician

Friday May 20, 2011

QOD: Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ~ Thornton Wilder (né Thornton Niven Wilder; Apr. 17, 1897 ~ Dec. 7, 1975)