January 31st
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.
— Peggy Noonan
January 30th
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
— Steven Weinberg
January 29th
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
January 28th
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
— Immanuel Kant
January 27th
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
— Louis L'Amour, BENDIGO SHAFTER
January 26th
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die --- whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
— Gilda Radner
January 25th
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
— Thomas Szasz, THE SECOND SIN, "Science and Scientism"
January 24th
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
— Dave Barry, "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"
January 23rd
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
— P. J. O'Rourke
January 22nd
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
— Mark Twain
January 21st
I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
— Bernard Berenson
January 20th
It is with words as with sunbeams --- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
— Robert Southey
January 19th
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
— Hosea Ballou
January 18th
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
January 17th
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
January 16th
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
— Christian Dior
January 15th
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
— Edward R. Murrow
January 14th
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
— Dame Edna Everage
January 13th
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
— George Iles
January 12th
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
— Cyril Connolly
January 11th
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
— Josh Billings
January 10th
No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
— Michael Pritchard
January 9th
If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
— Kin Hubbard
January 8th
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
— Oscar Wilde
January 7th
Books may well be the only true magic.
— Alice Hoffman
January 6th
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
— Ralph W. Sockman
January 5th
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin
January 4th
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 3rd
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
January 2nd
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
— Thomas Carlyle
January 1st
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
— Edward Payson Powell
