August 1st
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently,
by elimination, dishonesty is the second—best policy.
— George Carlin
August 2nd
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
— Sir William Osler
August 3rd
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer,
more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.
August 4th
To freely bloom ——— that is my definition of success.
— Gerry Spence, HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
August 5th
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
— Henry Miller
August 6th
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
— Clementine Paddleford
August 7th
I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation.
— Whoopi Goldberg
August 8th
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
— D. H. Lawrence
August 9th
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor
for every other part of society.
— Anna Quindlen
August 10th
Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
— Michael Landon
August 11th
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 12th
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you
do not trust enough.
— Frank Crane
August 13th
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
— Jane Wagner
August 14th
Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
— Satchel Paige
August 15th
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his
own breath.
— Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
August 16th
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
August 17th
If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
— Jerry Seinfeld
August 18th
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
August 19th
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger
than you seem, and smarter than you think.
— A. A. Milne, WINNIE THE POOH
August 20th
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
August 21st
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honor or fall
into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were
all together, united by a good and a kind feeling which made us perhaps better
than we are.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
August 22nd
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it.
You're just passing it on to someone else.
— Mitch Albom, THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
August 23rd
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't
learned nothing.
— Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
August 24th
I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources —— Marvel
Comics and FINNEGANS WAKE.
— Umberto Eco
August 25th
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried
to portray in all its beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
— Leo Tolstoy
August 26th
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
— George Gordon, Lord Byron
August 27th
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
— Henry David Thoreau, Economy from WALDEN
August 28th
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight,
or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
— e. e. cummings
August 29th
A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.
— John le Carré
August 30th
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
— Patricia Russell—McCloud
August 31st
The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be
said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.
— Glenn Doman
