Monday, March 4, 2024

QOD:  Thomas L. Masson: “Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give to some people.  ~  Thomas L. Masson (1866 ~ 1934), American anthropologist and author  

Sunday, March 3, 2024

QOD:  Ambition is a lust that is never quenched but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.  ~  Thomas Otway (Mar. 3, 1652 ~ Apr. 14, 1685), English playwright

Friday, March 1, 2024

QOD:  People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill.  They want a quarter-inch hole.  ~  Theodore Levitt (Mar. 1, 1925 ~ June 28, 2006), German-born American economist

Thursday, February 29, 2024

QOD:  Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.  ~  Ovid, Roman poet

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

QOD:  In the end, the only things worth doing are the things that might possibly break your heard.  Rage on. ~  Colum McCann (b. Feb. 28, 1965), Irish writer

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

QOD:  Ideas are like rabbits.  You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.  ~  John Steinbeck (né John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.; Feb. 27, 1902 ~ Dec. 20, 1968), American novelist and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature

Monday, February 26, 2024

QOD:  Look closely at life.  It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.  ~  Victor Hugo (né Victor Marie Hugo; Feb. 26, 1802 ~ May 22, 1885), French novelist