January 31st
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience --- well, that comes from poor judgment.
— Cousin Woodman
January 30th
It's hard to detect good luck --- it looks so much like something you've earned.
— Fred A. Clark
January 29th
Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
— Victoria Holt
January 28th
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
— Drew Barrymore
January 27th
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
— George Bernard Shaw, in AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST
January 26th
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
— Sylvia Plath in THE BELL JAR
January 25th
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
— Emily Dickinson
January 24th
Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.
— Gerald Brenan
January 23rd
You see how circumstances are to blame. I am not really an odd person if I put more and more small pieces of shredded kleenex in my ears and tie a scarf around my head: when I lived alone I had all the silence I needed.
— Lydia Davis, "Odd Behavior"
January 22nd
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.
— John P. Grier
January 21st
Never cut what you can untie.
— Joseph Joubert
January 20th
Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
— Otto von Bismarck
January 19th
A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
January 18th
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
— Robert Ingersoll
January 17th
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
— Mark Twain
January 16th
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
January 15th
If I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
— J.D. Salinger, RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS
January 14th
We live in a world where lemonade is made from artificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons.
— Alfred E. Neuman, THE HALF-WIT AND WISDOM OF ALFRED E. NEUMAN (MAD Magazine)
January 13th
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
— Eric Hoffer
January 12th
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
January 11th
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
— Jimmy Buffett
January 10th
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
— George Bernard Shaw
January 9th
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
— Terry Pratchett
January 8th
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
— Albert Einstein
January 7th
It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.
— Glenn Close
January 6th
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts
January 5th
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.
— Larry Leissner
January 4th
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
— William Shakespeare
January 3rd
I exist as I am, that is enough.
— Walt Whitman
January 2nd
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
— Edith Wharton
January 1st
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.
— Charles Lamb, in "New Year's Eve"
