Song Lyric of the Day (Steely Dan, on ‘Any Minor World That Breaks Apart’)

“Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend
Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again.”—“Any Major Dude,” written by American songwriters and musicians Donald Fagen and Walter Becker (1950-2017), performed by Steely Dan on their Pretzel Logic LP (1974)

Quote of the Day (P. G. Wodehouse, on a Reversal)

“Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, ‘So, you're back from Moscow, eh?’” — English humorist P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), Mike and Psmith (1953)

Quote of the Day (Washington Irving, on Misfortune’s Different Effect on Little and Great Minds)

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.” ―American fiction writer, biographer and diplomat Washington Irving (1783-1859), “Philip of Pokanoket: An Indian Memoir," in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1818)