Tuesday, November 22, 2022

QOD:  I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.  ~  George Eliot (née Mary Anne Evans, Nov. 22, 1819 ~ Dec. 22, 1880), English novelist

Monday, November 21, 2022

QOD:  Friends are God’s apology for relations.  ~  Hugh Kingsmill (né Hugh Kingsmill Lund; d. May 15, 1949), British author

Sunday, November 20, 2022

QOD:  It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.  ~  Don DeLillo (né Donald Richard DeLillo; b. Nov. 20, 1936), American novelist

Friday, November 18, 2022

QOD:  I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy.  It’s probably because they’ve forgotten their own.  ~  Margaret Atwood (née Margaret Eleanor Atwood; b. Nov. 18, 1939), Canadian novelist

Thursday, November 17, 2022

QOD:  I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.  ~  Lorne Michaels (né Lorne David Lipowitz; b. Nov. 17, 1944), Canadian-born actor and television producer

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

QOD:  Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.  ~  George S. Kaufman (né George Simon Kaufman; Nov. 16, 1889 ~ June 2, 1961), American playwright

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

QOD:  Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and more still the man who is indifferent to everything.  ~  Johan Casper Lavater (Nov. 15, 1741 ~ Jan. 2, 1801), Swiss poet and theologian