January 31st
It is difficult to like anybody else's idea of being funny.
— Gertrude Stein, EVERYBODY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
January 30th
Rumor is seldom at a loss for answers.
— Herman Melville, THE CONFIDENCE MAN
January 29th
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, YOU LEARN BY LIVING
January 28th
The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has limits.
— Rita Mae Brown, BINGO
January 27th
There is no perfect time to write. There's only now.
— Barbara Kingsolver, Writer's Digest
January 26th
Afraid is a country with no exit visas.
— Audre Lorde, DIASPORA
January 25th
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
— Erica Jong, THE WRITER ON HER WORK
January 24th
Anecdotes are so much tastier when spiced with expensive names.
— Louise Brooks, LULU IN HOLLYWOOD
January 23rd
You see, but you do not observe.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA
January 22nd
There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.
— Kathleen Norris, BREAD INTO ROSES
January 21st
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
— Henry James, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
January 20th
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
— Lily Tomlin, Cosmopolitan
January 19th
I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
— Charles Dickens, GREAT EXPECTATIONS
January 18th
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
— Samuel Butler, EREWHON
January 17th
I believe in the dull lie --- make your story boring enough and no one will question it.
— Sara Paretsky, BLOOD SHOT
January 16th
I'm aging as well as a beach party movie.
— Harvey Fierstein, TORCH SONG TRILOGY
January 15th
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 14th
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
— Rudolf Nureyev
January 13th
No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
— Fran Lebowitz, SOCIAL STUDIES
January 12th
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
— Totie Fields
January 11th
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God.
— Thomas Jefferson, NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA
January 10th
There is no sinner like a young saint.
— Aphra Behn, THE ROVER
January 9th
Life seems to love the liver of it.
— Maya Angelou, WOULDN'T TAKE NOTHING FOR MY JOURNEY NOW
January 8th
Perfection is a trifle dull.
— W. Somerset Maugham, THE SUMMING UPbr>
January 7th
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
— Quentin Crisp, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT
January 6th
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The New Yorker
January 5th
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
— Erasmus, ADAGIA
January 4th
Nothing quite new is perfect.
— Cicero, BRUTUS
January 3rd
The only sin is mediocrity.
— Martha Graham
January 2nd
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, POSITION
January 1st
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?
— Judith Martin, MISS MANNER'S GUIDE TO EXCRUCIATINGLY CORRECT BEHAVIOR
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