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Archives - April 2012

April 1, 2012

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

– Max Eastman

April 2, 2012

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.

– Toni Morrison

April 3, 2012

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

– Jane Austen

April 4, 2012

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

– Bob Lemon

April 5, 2012

It's easier to quote poets than to read them.

– Allison Barrows

April 6, 2012

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

– Kahlil Gibran

April 7, 2012

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

– Lois McMaster Bujold, A CIVIL CAMPAIGN

April 8, 2012

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

– Robert Flatt

April 9, 2012

Who knows what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

– Cormac McCarthy

April 10, 2012

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

– Terry Pratchett

April 11, 2012

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

– J. P. Morgan

April 12, 2012

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

– Steven Wright

April 13, 2012

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

– Salman Rushdie

April 14, 2012

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

– Winston Churchill

April 15, 2012

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

– Robert Henri

April 16, 2012

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

– William Shakespeare

April 17, 2012

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

– J. D. Salinger

April 18, 2012

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

– John Green, LOOKING FOR ALASKA

April 19, 2012

The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.

– Glaser and Way

April 20, 2012

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

– Mahatma Gandhi

April 21, 2012

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

– William Goldman

April 22, 2012

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

– Salvatore Quasimodo

April 23, 2012

There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot.

– Plato

April 24, 2012

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

– Leonardo DaVinci

April 25, 2012

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

April 26, 2012

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

– Margaret Mitchell

April 27, 2012

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

– Ogden Nash

April 28, 2012

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

– Walt Disney

April 29, 2012

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

– John Lennon

April 30, 2012

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

– Octavio Paz