October 31st
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
— Author Unknown
October 30th
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
— Anne Dillard
October 29th
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
— E.L. Doctorow
October 28th
Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
October 27th
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
— Stephen Covey
October 26th
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
— Jacques Derrida
October 25th
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough --- that we should try again.
— Julia Margaret Cameron
October 24th
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
— Wilson Mizner
October 23rd
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 22nd
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
— Jonathan Carroll
October 21st
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
— Socrates
October 20th
When one finds oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship.
— John Renmerde
October 19th
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
— Golda Meir
October 18th
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
— Billy Joel
October 17th
That is the best --- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
— Gloria Vanderbilt
October 16th
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
— Alice Walker
October 15th
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
— Helen Keller
October 14th
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
— Martin H. Fischer
October 13th
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
— A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh
October 12th
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
— Charles M. Schulz
October 11th
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
— Will Ferrell
October 10th
In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.
— Charles Kendall Adams
October 9th
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
— Henry David Thoreau
October 8th
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
— James Joyce
October 7th
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
— André Maurois
October 6th
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams
October 5th
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
— Ronald Reagan
October 4th
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
October 3rd
In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
— Samuel Johnson
October 2nd
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
— James Thurber
October 1st
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.
— William Shakespeare
