January 1st
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
— John Burroughs
January 2nd
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
— Arthur Rubinstein
January 3rd
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
— Mae West
January 4th
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
— Robert Orben
January 5th
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
— H. T. Leslie
January 6th
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
— Tom Bodett
January 7th
The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.
— Linda Knight
January 8th
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
— David H. Comins
January 9th
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
— Helen Keller
January 10th
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
— Wendell Johnson
January 11th
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
— Frank Herbert
January 12th
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
January 13th
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
— Aneurin Bevan
January 14th
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
— Samuel Butler
January 15th
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
— Dave Barry
January 16th
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
— Sir Winston Churchill
January 17th
Laughter is inner jogging.
— Norman Cousins
January 18th
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
— Isaac Asimov
January 19th
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
— Benjamin Disraeli
January 20th
Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again --- this is the brave and happy life.
— J. E. Buchrose
January 21st
Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
January 22nd
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
— Rudyard Kipling
January 23rd
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
— Doug Larson
January 24th
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
— John Churton Collins
January 25th
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
— Kurt Vonnegut
January 26th
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
January 27th
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
— Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND
January 28th
A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
— Dutch proverb
January 29th
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
— Paul Gauguin
January 30th
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
— Tom Stoppard
January 31st
Make your life a mission --- not an intermission.
— Arnold Glasgow
