October 1st
Time is how you spend your love.
— Nick Laird
October 2nd
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
— Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
October 3rd
Silence is a text easy to misread.
— A. A. Attanasio, THE EAGLE AND THE SWORD
October 4th
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
— Bob Hope
October 5th
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
— Albert Camus
October 6th
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
— M. C. Escher
October 7th
I dwell in possibility...
— Emily Dickinson
October 8th
A ship in harbor is safe --- but that is not what ships are for.
— John A. Shedd, SALT FROM MY ATTIC
October 9th
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your
age.
— Lucille Ball
October 10th
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the
day before was wrong.
— Bill Vaughan
October 11th
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
— Blaise Pascal
October 12th
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis
of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
— William Faulkner
October 13th
To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend;
to read it a second time is to meet an old one.
— Selwyn Champion
October 14th
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
— Henry J. Kaiser
October 15th
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope --- a slight change, and all patterns
alter.
— Sharon Salzberg
October 16th
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
— Samuel McChord Crothers, THE GENTLE READER
October 17th
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough
to make them all yourself.
— Sam Levenson
October 18th
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
— George Bernard Shaw
October 19th
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless
because they are badly argued.
— Thomas H. Huxley
October 20th
It's a control freak thing. I wouldn't let you understand.
— S.H. Underwood
October 21st
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate
plants.
— A. Whitney Brown
October 22nd
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
— Dale Carnegie
October 23rd
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
October 24th
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other
is pulling up.
— Booker T. Washington
October 25th
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
— Augusten Burroughs, MAGICAL THINKING
October 26th
It is very strange that the years teach us patience --- that the shorter our
time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
— Elizabeth Taylor
October 27th
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
— Isaac Newton
October 28th
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
— Plato
October 29th
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people
who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
— Anna Quindlen
October 30th
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.
— Jose Simon
October 31st
Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
— Steve Almond
