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 27, 2023

QOD:  Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.  ~  David Sarnoff (Feb. 27, 1891 ~ Dec. 12, 1971), Russian-born broadcasting pioneer

Sunday, February 27, 2022

QOD:  What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?  ~  John Steinbeck (né John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr.; Feb. 27, 1902 ~ Dec. 20, 1968), American novelist and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature

Thursday, February 27, 2020

QOD:  It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the Earth.  ~  John Steinbeck (Feb. 27, 1902 ~ Dec. 20, 1968), American novelist and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

QOD:  Your best teacher is your last mistake.  ~  Ralph Nader (b. Feb. 27, 1934)

Friday, February 27, 2015

QOD:  A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.  ~  John Steinbeck (Feb. 27, 1902 ~ Dec. 20, 1968), American novelist and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

QOD:  A journey is like marriage.  The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.  ~  John Steinbeck (né John Ernest Steinbeck, Jr.; Feb. 27, 1902 ~ Dec. 20, 1968), American novelist and recipient of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature

Monday, February 27, 2011

QOD: Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

QOD: The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. ~ Milan Kundera (b. Apr. 1, 1929), Czech writer  [Milan Kundera died in Paris, France on July 11, 2023 at age 94.]