August 31st
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
— Sigmund Freud, 1933
August 30th
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
— George Bush
August 29th
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
— Irving Wallace
August 28th
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.
— Woody Allen
August 27th
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
— Jean de la Bruyere
August 26th
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book it makes a very poor doorstop.
— Alfred Hitchcock
August 25th
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
— Niels Bohr
August 24th
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
August 23rd
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
— Samuel Johnson
August 22nd
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
— Henry Kissinger
August 21st
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
— Peter De Vries
August 20th
Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, POSITION
August 19th
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
— Kurt Vonnegut
August 18th
We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.
— Anais Nin
August 17th
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
August 16th
There are two types of people—those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
— Frederick L. Collins
August 15th
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
— Immanuel Kant
August 14th
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
— Buddha
August 13th
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -that is all that agnosticism means.
— Clarence Darrow
August 12th
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
— Publicius (Publilius Syrus)
August 11th
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
— the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
August 10th
No sane man will dance.
— Cicero
August 9th
Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
— Karl Marx
August 8th
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
— Robert Bresson
August 7th
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
August 6th
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
— Seneca
August 5th
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
— Oscar Wilde
August 4th
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
— W. H. Auden
August 3rd
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of the friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
— Muhammad Ali
August 2nd
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
August 1st
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.
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