October 31st
Where there is no imagination there is no Horror.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
October 30th
Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.
— Edwin Way Teale
October 29th
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.
— J.K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
October 28th
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
— Tom Robbins
October 27th
The only cure for grief is action.
— George Henry Lewes
October 26th
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
— Sallust, Jugurthine War
October 25th
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
— W. H. Auden
October 24th
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
— Sara June Parker
October 23rd
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
— Jerry Seinfeld
October 22nd
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
— Scott Westerfeld, PEEPS
October 21st
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
— Okakura Kak
October 20th
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
— Terry Pratchett
October 19th
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
— Woodrow Wilson
October 18th
Life is too short for traffic.
— Dan Bellack
October 17th
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
— Franklin P. Jones
October 16th
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
October 15th
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
— Martin Fraguhar Tupper
October 14th
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
— Audrey Hepburn
October 13th
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
— Marcel Proust
October 12th
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
— Henry Miller
October 11th
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
— W. Somerset Maugham, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE
October 10th
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
— Floyd Dell
October 9th
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
— André Gide
October 8th
Never have children, only grandchildren.
— Gore Vidal
October 7th
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
— Henry David Thoreau
October 6th
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night...without the satisfaction.
— Lynne Johnston, "For Better or For Worse"
October 5th
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
— Harold S. Kushner
October 4th
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
— Arnold Bennett
October 3rd
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
— Bob Wells
October 2nd
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
— John Keats
October 1st
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
— Immanuel Hermann Fichte
