December 1st
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- Ray Bradbury
December 2nd
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
- Cullen Hightower
December 3rd
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber
December 4th
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
- Robert Lynd, THE BLUE LION AND OTHER ESSAYS
December 5th
Character --- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life --- is the source from which self-respect springs.
- Joan Didion, SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM
December 6th
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
- Carol Burnett
December 7th
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
December 8th
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson
December 9th
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller
December 10th
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
- Madame de Tencin
December 11th
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
- Washington Irving
December 12th
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
- J. D. Salinger, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
December 13th
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
- Joel Hawes
December 14th
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar
December 15th
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
- Jean Anouilh
December 16th
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
- Anna Quindlen, A SHORT GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE
December 17th
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams, LAST CHANCE TO SEE
December 18th
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
- Mel Brooks
December 19th
The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine, a working machine…
- Woody Guthrie
December 20th
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
- Victor Hugo
December 21st
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
- Edith Sitwell
December 22nd
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.
- Elizabeth David
December 23rd
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
- Agatha Christie
December 24th
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
December 25th
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!”
- Dr. Seuss, HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
December 26th
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
- Walt Disney, THE DISNEY WAY
December 27th
It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.
- Ella Fitzgerald
December 28th
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
- Arnold Bennett
December 29th
I think people don't place a high enough value on how much they are nurtured by doing whatever it is that totally absorbs them.
- Jean Shinoda Bolen
December 30th
Everything comes to him who waits but a loaned book.
- Kin Hubbard
December 31st
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden
