April 30th
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
— Kathleen Norris, HANDS FULL OF LIVING
April 29th
Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.
— Barbara Hall, A SUMMONS TO NEW ORLEANS
April 28th
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
— John Ciardi
April 27th
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
— Alice James
April 26th
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
— Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
April 25th
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
— Jean Cocteau
April 24th
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
— Jack London
April 23rd
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
— Samuel Goldwyn
April 22nd
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
— Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicate
April 21st
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
— Robert Fripp
April 20th
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
— John Keats
April 19th
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
— Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
April 18th
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
— Ralph W. Sockman
April 17th
Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.
— Dr. David M. Burns
April 16th
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
— Roger Allen
April 15th
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
— Will Rogers
April 14th
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
— Ring Lardner, HOW TO WRITE SHORT STORIES
April 13th
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
— Lewis Thomas
April 12th
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
— Ernest Haskins
April 11th
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
April 10th
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open, park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
— Charles Rosin, "Northern Exposure"
April 9th
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
— Sir Wilfred Grenfell
April 8th
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
— Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
April 7th
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
— Scott Adams
April 6th
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
— Tallulah Bankhead
April 5th
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
— Susan Jeffers
April 4th
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
— Albert Einstein
April 3rd
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
— Phyllis Diller
April 2nd
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
April 1st
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
— George Orwell
