Monday, September 11, 2023

QOD:  Having a million opinions about everything comes cheap and easy, whereas actually doing something can cost you quite a lot.  ~  Gary Indiana (né Gary Hoisington; b. 1950), American writer and artist

Sunday, September 11, 2022

QOD:  Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.  ~  O. Henry (né William Sydney Porter, Sept. 11, 1862 ~ June 5, 1910), American writer

Friday, September 11, 2020

QOD:  The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer.  It has never melted yet.  ~  D.H. Lawrence (né David Herbert Lawrence; Sept. 11, 1885 ~ Mar. 2, 1930), English novelist

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

QOD:  If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.  ~  O. Henry (né William Sydney Porter, Sept. 11, 1862 ~ June 5, 1910)

Monday, September 11, 2017

QOD:  Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.  ~  O. Henry (né William Sydney Porter; Sept. 11, 1862 ~ June 5, 1910), American short story writer

Sunday, September 11, 2016

QOD:  The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.  ~  O. Henry (Sept. 11, 1862 ~ June 5, 1910)

Friday, September 11, 2015

QOD:  A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.  ~  O. Henry (né William Sydney Porter; Sept. 11, 1862 ~ June 5, 1910)

Thursday, September 11, 2014

QOD:  It’s bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.  ~  D.H. Lawrence (Sept. 11, 1885 ~ Mar. 2, 1930)

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

QOD:  Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hand, he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.  ~  O. Henry (né William Sydney Porter, Sept. 11, 1962 ~ June 5, 1910)

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

QOD:  The past is always tense, the the future perfect.  ~  Zadie Smith (b. Oct. 25, 1975)

Sunday, September 11, 2011

QOD: A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. ~ Robert Southey (Aug. 12, 1774 ~ Mar. 21, 1843)