September 1st
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
— Ovid
September 2nd
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
— Tom Bodett
September 3rd
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
September 4th
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
September 5th
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
— Woody Guthrie
September 6th
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
— Albert Einstein
September 7th
When a child is born, so are grandmothers.
— Judith Levy
September 8th
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
— Bertrand Russell
September 9th
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
— Alan Alda
September 10th
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
— Tom Robbins
September 11th
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
— Benjamin Franklin
September 12th
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
— Albert Camus
September 13th
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.
— Roald Dahl, BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD
September 14th
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
— Ken Kesey, THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST
September 15th
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
— Henry James, THE AMBASSADORS
September 16th
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
— Aldous Huxley
September 17th
The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.
— George Washington
September 18th
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
— Woody Allen
September 19th
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
September 20th
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut, MOTHER NIGHT
September 21st
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
— John Lennon
September 22nd
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
— Elizabeth Lawrence
September 23rd
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
— Vincent Van Gogh
September 24th
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau
September 25th
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
— Ayn Rand, FOR THE NEW INTELLECTUAL
September 26th
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
— Mark Twain
September 27th
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
— Groucho Marx
September 28th
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
– Baruch Spinoza
September 29th
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
— Joseph Heller
September 30th
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
— Carl Sagan
