July 31st
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
— Lady Bird Johnson
July 30th
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
— Richard Whately
July 29th
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
— Thomas Carlyle
July 28th
What we remember from childhood we remember forever --- permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
— Cynthia Ozick
July 27th
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
— W. H. Auden, THE DYER'S HAND, 1962
July 26th
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.
— Ron Dentinger
July 25th
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
— C.S. Lewis
July 24th
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
— Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his son, October 9, 1746
July 23rd
A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.
— Kenneth Chang
July 22nd
Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.
— David Grayson, ADVENTURES IN CONTENTMENT, 1907
July 21st
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
— Orison Swett Marden
July 20th
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
— John G. Pollard
July 19th
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
— Stewart E. White
July 18th
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
— Euripides
July 17th
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
— Bob Hope
July 16th
Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
— Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
July 15th
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
— Helen Keller, THE OPEN DOOR (1957)
July 14th
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.
— Shunryu Suzuki
July 13th
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
— Diane Arbus
July 12th
Music must rank as the highest of the arts -- more than any other, it ministers to human welfare.
— Herbert Spencer
July 11th
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.
— Lady Hasluck
July 10th
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
— Charles A. Stoddard
July 9th
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
— Albert Einstein
July 8th
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
— André Maurois
July 7th
Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
— Alphonse Karr
July 6th
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
July 5th
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
— Benjamin Franklin
July 4th
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
— Hamilton Fish
July 3rd
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
— Paul Sweeney
July 2nd
Jobs are physically easier, but the worker now takes home worries instead of an aching back.
— Homer Bigart
July 1st
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
— Samuel Johnson
