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Quotes Home

Today's Quote:

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
– Abraham Lincoln

Previous Quotes:

January 31st
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully
— Hahlil Gibran

January 30th
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self
— May Sarton

January 29th
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people
— Abraham Joshua Heschel

January 28th
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got
— Janis Joplin

January 27th
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves
— Albert Camus

January 26th
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them
— Bill Vaughan

January 25th
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B
— James Yorke

January 24th
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get
— Mark Twain

January 23rd
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking
— Alfred Korzybski

January 22nd
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning
— Ivy Baker Priest

January 21st
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is
— H. Jackson Browne

January 20th
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past
— Edward Gibbon

January 19th
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle
— Anais Nin

January 18th
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you
— Mortimer Adler

January 17th
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful
— Kurt Vonnegut

January 16th
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

January 15th
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 14th
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

January 13th
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe
— Marilyn vos Savant

January 12th
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it
— Douglas Lurtan

January 11th
It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane
— M. Grundler

January 10th
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it
— H. L. Mencken

January 9th
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist
— Oscar Wilde

January 8th
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity
— Robert Louis Stevenson

January 7th
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual
— Honore de Balzac

January 6th
TV is chewing gum for the eyes
— Frank Lloyd Wright

January 5th
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library
— Jorge Luis Borges

January 4th
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
— Mahatma Gandhi

January 3rd
I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close
— Henry J. Kaiser

January 2nd
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life
— Sophia Loren

January 1st
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with things that move us toward progress and peace
— Ronald Reagan