November 30th
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
— Izaak Walton
November 29th
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
— Lawana Blackwell, THE COURTSHIP OF THE VICAR'S DAUGHTER, 1998
November 28th
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
— Sean O'Faolain
November 27th
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
— E.P. Powell
November 26th
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
November 25th
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
— William Penn
November 24th
Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
November 23rd
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
— Hippocrates, REGIMEN IN HEALTH
November 22nd
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
— Madeleine L'Engle, WALKING ON WATER: Reflections on Faith and Art, 1980
November 21st
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
— Sydney Smith
November 20th
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
— Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
November 19th
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
November 18th
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
— Bruce Marton
November 17th
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
— H. L. Mencken
November 16th
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
— Cicero
November 15th
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
— George F. Will
November 14th
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
— Confucius, THE CONFUCIAN ANALECTS
November 13th
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
— Dr. David M. Burns
November 12th
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
— John Sales
November 11th
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
— John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1961
November 10th
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
November 9th
Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market.
— Don Hays
November 8th
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
— Will Rogers, New York Times, April 29, 1930
November 7th
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
— Philip Caldwell
November 6th
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history --- with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
— Mitch Ratliffe
November 5th
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
— George Bernard Shaw
November 4th
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
November 3rd
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
— Bruce Barton
November 2nd
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
— Thomas Szasz, THE SECOND SIN (1973), "Personal Conduct"
November 1st
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
— Ezra Pound
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