June 30th
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
— Fred Allen
June 29th
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
— Fr. Jerome Cummings
June 28th
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
— William Osler
June 27th
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
— Henri de Lubac, PARADOXES
June 26th
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
— Georges Duhamel, THE HEART'S DOMAIN
June 25th
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
— A. C. Benson
June 24th
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— G. K. Chesterton
June 23rd
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
— Homer, ODYSSEY
June 22nd
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
— Ralph Marston
June 21st
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
— James Dent
June 20th
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
— Charles Wadsworth
June 19th
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
— Theodor S. Geisel, a.k.a. "Dr. Seuss"
June 18th
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
— Jean Paul Richter
June 17th
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
— Calvin Trillin
June 16th
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
— Oliver Herford
June 15th
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
— William Penn
June 14th
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
— Tom Robbins, STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER
June 13th
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
June 12th
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
— Jackie Gleason
June 11th
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
— Dag Hammarskjold
June 10th
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.
— Anonymous
June 9th
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
— Alfred Hitchcock
June 8th
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
June 7th
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
— Mao Zedong
June 6th
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
— George Burns
June 5th
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
— Thomas Arnold Bennett
June 4th
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
— Thomas Carlyle
June 3rd
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
— Buddy Hackett
June 2nd
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa
June 1st
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit --- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
— Johann von Goethe
