QOTD - Oscar Wilde

“There is no sin except stupidity.” - Oscar Wilde

QOTD - Anatole France

“Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.” - Anatole France

QOTD - Juvenal

“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” - Juvenal

QOTD - James Ellis

“Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.” - James Ellis

QOTD - Donald Grant Mitchell

“There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.” - Donald Grant Mitchell

QOTD - Charles Kettering

“If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it.” - Charles F. Kettering

QOTD - Anna Quindlen

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” - Anna Quindlen

Funny (Tax) Business

 

If only we could claim our furry, feathered, and scaly friends as dependents :)

Fun fake pet tax return forms have circulated on the web for ages but I couldn't resist sharing this one.

QOTD - Victor Hugo

“Common sense is in spite of, not as a result of education.” - Victor Hugo 

QOTD - Carl Sandburg

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down,
a sun dropped in the west.

- "Prairie" from Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg (1918)

Source: Bartleby (https://www.bartleby.com/134/1.html)

QOTD - Josh Billings

“The less we know the more we suspect.” - Josh Billings

QOTD - Robert South

“If there be any truer measure of a man by what he does, it must be by what he gives.” - Robert South

QOTD - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

QOTD - John Stuart Mill

“That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” - John Stuart Mill

QOTD - Ambrose Bierce

“The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.” - Ambrose Bierce

QOTD - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

QOTD - Kin Hubbard

“Some folks can look so busy doing nothin’ that they seem indispensable.” - Kin Hubbard

QOTD - Calvin Coolidge

“I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.” - Calvin Coolidge

QOTD - W. L. Sheldon

“Remember that there is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” - W. L. Sheldon, “What to Believe: An Ethical Creed”, Ethical Addresses, April 1897

QOTD - Levi Furbush

Remember 

by Levi Furbush

Always remember to forget
The things that made you sad.
But never forget to remember
The things that made you glad.

Always remember to forget
The friends that proved untrue,
But never forget to remember
Those that have stuck by you.

Source: The Gazette and Daily (York, PA), March 3, 1936

QOTD - Arthur Clarke

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarian and we’re sceptical.” - Arthur Clarke

QOTD - W. E. B. Du Bois

“There is in this world no such force as the force of a man determined to rise. The human soul can not be permanently chained.” - W. E. B. Du Bois

QOTD - Gelett Burgess

“When you find you haven’t discarded a major opinion for years, or acquired a new one, you should stop and investigate to see if you’re not growing senile.” - Gelett Burgess

QOTD - Rev. William Nevins

“We should judge ourselves by our motives, but others by their actions.” - Rev. William Nevins

QOTD - Kofi Annan

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” - Kofi Annan

QOTD - Sharon Begley

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” - Sharon Begley, Seeking Other Worlds (Profile of Carl Sagan), Newsweek (August 15, 1977)

QOTD - Plutarch

“The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.” - Plutarch

QOTD - Carl Jung

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.” - Carl Jung, Letter To Gustav Schmaltz (30 May 1957)

QOTD - Yohanca Delgado

“Nothing in this brief life is promised but this one irrefutable truth: there are good people out there who mean you well, and who show up in these moments of everyday kindness.” - Yohanca Delgado 

QOTD - Rachel Carson

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” – Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (1962)

QOTD - Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - (314)
By Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

Source: Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314)

QOTD - bell hooks

"Living simply makes loving simple." – bell hooks