November 30th
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
— Charles Caleb Colton
November 29th
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
— James Thurber
November 28th
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
— Woody Allen
November 27th
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
— Julia Child
November 26th
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
— Charlotte Brontë
November 25th
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
— C. S. Lewis
November 24th
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
— Stephen Hawking
November 23rd
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
— W. J. Cameron
November 22nd
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
— Garrison Keillor
November 21st
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
— Harry S. Truman
November 20th
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
— Thomas A. Edison
November 19th
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
— Edith Wharton
November 18th
By words the mind is winged.
— Aristophanes
November 17th
Insanity --- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
— R. D. Lang
November 16th
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
— Douglas Adams
November 15th
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
— Herbert Henry Asquith
November 14th
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
— Madeleine L'Engle
November 13th
To know when to be generous and when to be firm --- this is wisdom.
— Elbert Hubbard
November 12th
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
— Henry Ward Beecher
November 11th
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory.
— George S. Patton
November 10th
The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.
— Rebecca Pepper Sinkler
November 9th
What is reality anyway? It's nothing but a collective hunch.
— Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
November 8th
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
— Edgar Allan Poe
November 7th
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
— William Goldman, THE PRINCESS BRIDE
November 6th
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 5th
It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
— Mark Twain
November 4th
Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.
— Jacques Prévert
November 3rd
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
— Ernestine Ulmer
November 2nd
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
— Lily Tomlin
November 1st
I believe in stories. The world has enough dogma.
— Sue Monk Kidd
