August 31st
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
— Mark Twain
August 30th
It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.
— Carolyn Wheat
August 29th
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
— Horace Mann
August 28th
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
— George Washington
August 27th
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
August 26th
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
— Robert Frost
August 25th
By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
— George Bancroft
August 24th
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
— William Cowper
August 23rd
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
— Josh Jenkins
August 22nd
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
— Sophia Loren
August 21st
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
— Victor Frankl
August 20th
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
— Herbert Spencer
August 19th
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
— Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
August 18th
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
— Alfred North Whitehead
August 17th
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
— Richard Dawkins
August 16th
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
— Walter Scott
August 15th
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
— Lawana Blackwell, THE DOWRY OF MISS LYDIA CLARK, 1999
August 14th
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
— Jules Renard
August 13th
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
— James Ellis
August 12th
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
— Inigo DeLeon
August 11th
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
— Eugene S. Wilson
August 10th
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
— Warren Buffett
August 9th
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
— Paul Dirac
August 8th
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
— Cicero
August 7th
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
— Leonard Bernstein
August 6th
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
— Allan Beck
August 5th
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
— James Thurber
August 4th
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
— Alan Patrick Herbert
August 3rd
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
— Sidney J. Harris
August 2nd
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
— Pearl Buck, THE JOY OF CHILDREN, 1964
August 1st
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.
— Wendell Phillips
