Thursday, January 4, 2023

QOD:  I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.  ~  Sir Isaac Newton (Jan. 4, 1643 ~ Mar. 31, 1727), English mathematician and physicist

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

QOD:  What we know is a drop; what we don’t know is an ocean.  ~  Sir Isaac Newton (Jan. 4, 1643 ~ Mar. 31, 1727), English mathematician and physicist

Monday, January 4, 2021

QOD:   If Mark Twain had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it.  But he probably wouldn’t have around to writing.  ~  Andy Borowitz (b. Jan. 4, 1958), American journalist and humorist

Friday, January 4, 2019

QOD:  A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.  ~  Everett Dirksen (née Everett McKinley Dirksen; Jan. 4, 1896 ~ Sept. 7, 1969), American politician and United States Senator from Illinois

Thursday, January 4, 2018

QOD:  I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.  ~  Everett Dirksen (Jan. 4, 1896 ~ Sept. 7, 1969)

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

QOD:  The oil can be mightier than the sword.  ~  Everett Dirksen (Jan. 4, 1896 ~ Sept. 7, 1969)

Monday, January 4, 2016

QOD:  I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.  ~  Everett Dirksen (né Everett McKinley Dirksen; Jan. 4, 1896 ~ Sept. 7, 1969); United States Senator from Illinois

Wednesday, January 4, 2011

QOD: One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. ~ Virginia Woolf (née Adeline Virginia Woolf; Jan. 25, 1882 ~ Mar. 28, 1941), British author

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

QOD: Youth is when you blame your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation. ~ Bertolt Brecht (né Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; Feb. 10, 1898 ~ Aug. 14, 1956), German playwright