August 1st
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
- William Faulkner

August 2nd
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.
- Sidney J. Harris

August 3rd
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Dalai Lama

August 4th
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Charles de Secondat

August 5th
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore

August 6th
I improve on misquotation.
- Cary Grant

August 7th
Don't take life too seriously because you'll never get out alive.
- Josh Shippe

August 8th
Sanity is a madness put to good use.
- George Santayana

August 9th
If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting.
- Jack Handy

August 10th
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

August 11th
I know a way to stay friends forever ---
There's really nothing to it.
I tell you what to do
And you do it!
- Shell Silverstein

August 12th
Envy is an insult to oneself.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

August 13th
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
- Joseph Brodsky

August 14th
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

August 15th
I told the doctor that I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
- Henny Youngman

August 16th
Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
- Robert W. Sarnoff

August 17th
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J.H. Boetcker

August 18th
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
- Eric Berne

August 19th
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
- Alice Hoffman, HERE ON EARTH

August 20th
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

August 21st
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
- Peter Sellers

August 22nd
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
- Doris Mortman

August 23rd
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
- Natalie Goldberg

August 24th
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti

August 25th
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
- Euripides

August 26th
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
- Erica Jong

August 27th
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
- William Feather

August 28th
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
- John Sladek

August 29th
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
- Iris Murdoch

August 30th
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
- Alice Kahn

August 31st
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e. e. cummings