September 30th
No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.
— C. S. Lewis
September 29th
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
— Sir Winston Churchill
September 28th
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
— Elizabeth Goudge
September 27th
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
— John Blake
September 26th
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.
— Charles Caleb Colton
September 25th
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
— Henry J. Kaiser
September 24th
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
— George Jessel
September 23rd
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
September 22nd
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
— Roger Caras
September 21st
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
— Jacquelyn Mitchard, THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
September 20th
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
— Paul Rand
September 19th
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
— J. K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
September 18th
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
— Plato
September 17th
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
— Rene Descartes
September 16th
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
September 15th
We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
September 14th
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
September 13th
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
— Rita Mae Brown
September 12th
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
— Jules de Gautier
September 11th
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
— Elie Wiesel
September 10th
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
— Claudia Ghandi
September 9th
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
— Rudyard Kipling
September 8th
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Søren Kierkegaard
September 7th
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
— Joe Theismann, former quarterback
September 6th
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
— Umberto Eco, TRAVELS IN HYPERREALITY
September 5th
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
— Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"
September 4th
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
— Doug Larson
September 3rd
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
September 2nd
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
— Elbert Hubbard
September 1st
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
— Stanislaw Lem
