October 31st
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
— Erma Bombeck

October 30th
The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.
— Peter Cochrane, Head of BT Labs UK talking about the Internet -- November 2000

October 29th
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong --- or absolutely right.
— Albert Guinon

October 28th
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
— Anatole France

October 27th
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
— Hunter S. Thompson, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

October 26th
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
— Arthur Calwell

October 25th
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
— William Lippmann

October 24th
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
— Mark Twain

October 23rd
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
— Ted Williams

October 22nd
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
— Mahatma Gandhi

October 21st
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
— Wilson Mizner

October 20th
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
— Michel de Montaigne

October 19th
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
— Charlotte P. Gilman

October 18th
If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
— Robert Montgomery

October 17th
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
— Tallulah Bankhead

October 16th
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

October 15th
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
— Plato

October 14th
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
— Leo Tolstoy

October 13th
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
— Jim Fiebig

October 12th
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
— Michael Pritchard

October 11th
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
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October 10th
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
— Richard Bach

October 9th
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
— Horace Bushnell

October 8th
The young always have the same problem --- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
— Quentin Crisp

October 7th
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
— George Harrison

October 6th
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time.
— Joe Girard

October 5th
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

October 4th
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
— Václav Havel, DISTURBING THE PEACE

October 3rd
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
— Alistair Cooke

October 2nd
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
— George Bernard Shaw

October 1st
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
— Alvin Toffler

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