Thursday, April 25, 2024

QOD:  It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.  ~  Cicero (BCE Jan. 3, 106 ~ BCE Dec. 7, 43, BCE), Roman statesmen and philosopher

 

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

QOD:  Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.  ~  Anthony Trollop (Apr. 24, 1815 ~ Dec. 6, 1882), British novelist

Monday, April 24, 2023

QOD:  A man’s virtue may be but the defect of his desire, as his crime may be but a function of his virtue.  ~  Robert Penn Warren (Apr. 24, 1905 ~ Sept. 15, 1989), American Southern writer

Sunday, April 24, 2022

QOD:  The most profound relationship we’ll ever have is the one with ourselves. ~ Shirley MacLaine (née Shirley MacLean Beaty; b. Apr. 24, 1934), American actress

Friday, April 24, 2020

QOD:  Love is like any other luxury: You have no right to it unless you can afford it.  ~  Anthony Trollop (Apr. 24, 1815 ~ Dec. 6, 1882), British novelist

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

QOD:  Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying  ~  Vincent de Paul (Apr. 24, 1581 ~ Sept. 27, 1660)

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

QOD:  It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says when he’s in love, drunk or running for office. ~ Shirley MacLaine (née Shirley MacLean Beaty, b. Apr. 24, 1934)

Sunday, April 24, 2016

QOD:  The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.  ~  Anthony Trollop (Apr. 24, 1815 ~ Dec. 6, 1882)

Friday, April 24, 2015

QOD:  When men think much, they can rarely decide.  ~  Anthony Trollope (Apr. 24, 1815 ~ Dec. 6, 1882), English novelist

Thursday, April 24, 2014

QOD:  There is no happiness in love, except as the end of an English novel.  ~  Anthony Trollope (Apr. 24, 1815 ~ Dec. 6, 1882), English novelist

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

QOD:  Style is a fraud.  I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.  ~  Willem de Kooning (Apr. 24, 1904 ~ Mar. 19, 1997)

Sunday, April 24, 2011

QOD: I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy."  I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate.  It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. ~ Leo C. Rosten (né Leo Calvin Rosten; Apr. 11, 1908 ~ Feb. 19, 1997)