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Archives - January 2002

January 1, 2002

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

– Judith Martin, MISS MANNER'S GUIDE TO EXCRUCIATINGLY CORRECT BEHAVIOR

January 2, 2002

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

– Arthur Schopenhauer, POSITION

January 3, 2002

The only sin is mediocrity.

– Martha Graham

January 4, 2002

Nothing quite new is perfect.

– Cicero, BRUTUS

January 5, 2002

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

– Erasmus, ADAGIA

January 6, 2002

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

– Barbara W. Tuchman, <i>The New Yorker</i>

January 7, 2002

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

– Quentin Crisp, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT

January 8, 2002

Perfection is a trifle dull.

– W. Somerset Maugham, THE SUMMING UP

January 9, 2002

Life seems to love the liver of it.

– Maya Angelou, WOULDN'T TAKE NOTHING FOR MY JOURNEY NOW

January 10, 2002

There is no sinner like a young saint.

– Aphra Behn, THE ROVER

January 11, 2002

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty Gods, or no God.

– Thomas Jefferson, NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA

January 12, 2002

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

– Totie Fields

January 13, 2002

No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

– Fran Lebowitz, SOCIAL STUDIES

January 14, 2002

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

– Rudolf Nureyev

January 15, 2002

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 16, 2002

I'm aging as well as a beach party movie.

– Harvey Fierstein, TORCH SONG TRILOGY

January 17, 2002

I believe in the dull lie --- make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

– Sara Paretsky, BLOOD SHOT

January 18, 2002

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

– Samuel Butler, EREWHON

January 19, 2002

I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.

– Charles Dickens, GREAT EXPECTATIONS

January 20, 2002

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

– Lily Tomlin, <i>Cosmopolitan</i>

January 21, 2002

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

– Henry James, THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

January 22, 2002

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

– Kathleen Norris, BREAD INTO ROSES

January 23, 2002

You see, but you do not observe.

– Arthur Conan Doyle, SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA

January 24, 2002

Anecdotes are so much tastier when spiced with expensive names.

– Louise Brooks, LULU IN HOLLYWOOD

January 25, 2002

Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

– Erica Jong, THE WRITER ON HER WORK

January 26, 2002

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

– Audre Lorde, DIASPORA

January 27, 2002

There is no perfect time to write. There's only now.

– Barbara Kingsolver, <i>Writer's Digest</i>

January 28, 2002

The difference between genius and stupidity is that even genius has limits.

– Rita Mae Brown, BINGO

January 29, 2002

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

– Eleanor Roosevelt, YOU LEARN BY LIVING

January 30, 2002

Rumor is seldom at a loss for answers.

– Herman Melville, THE CONFIDENCE MAN

January 31, 2002

It is difficult to like anybody else's idea of being funny.

– Gertrude Stein, EVERYBODY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY