May 31st
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
— Salma Hayek
May 30th
It is remarkable how similar the pattern of love is to the pattern of insanity.
— Andy and Larry Wachowsk, in The Matrix Revolutions
May 29th
Although no sculptured marble should rise to their memory, nor engraved stone bear record of their deeds, yet will their remembrance be as lasting as the land they honored.
— Daniel Webster
May 28th
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
— Arnold Edinborough
May 27th
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON
May 26th
Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.
— Bernard Malamud
May 25th
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
— George Santayana, THE LIFE OF REASON: REASON IN ART
May 24th
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
— E. B. White, SOME REMARKS ON HUMOR, introduction
May 23rd
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
— James Russell Lowell
May 22nd
The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.
— Tom Morris
May 21st
When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary.
— Brock Tully
May 20th
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
— Leigh Hunt
May 19th
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.
— George Elliot
May 18th
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
— Marva Collins
May 17th
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they hope it can be done, then they see it can be done --- then it is done and the whole world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, THE SECRET GARDEN
May 16th
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands --- and then eat just one of the pieces.
— Judith Viorst
May 15th
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is the progressive discovery of our ignorance.
— Will Durant
May 14th
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
May 13th
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
— Yves Saint Laurent
May 12th
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
— Jean Kerr
May 11th
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
— Eric Idle
May 10th
You can cage the singer but not the song.
— Harry Belafonte
May 9th
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
— Virginia Woolf
May 8th
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
— Jane Austen, MANSFIELD PARK
May 7th
There are two kinds of light --- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
— James Thurber
May 6th
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
— H. L. Mencken
May 5th
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
— Duke Ellington
May 4th
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish, I'll know how it turned out.
— Nora Ephron, in When Harry Met Sally
May 3rd
Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
— Isak Dinesen, "Babette's Feast"
May 2nd
The only means of strengthening one's intelligence is to make up one's mind about nothing --- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
— John Keats
May 1st
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka
