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Archives - January 2008

January 1, 2008

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

– John Burroughs

January 2, 2008

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

– Arthur Rubinstein

January 3, 2008

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

– Mae West

January 4, 2008

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.

– Robert Orben

January 5, 2008

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

– H. T. Leslie

January 6, 2008

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

– Tom Bodett

January 7, 2008

The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.

– Linda Knight

January 8, 2008

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

– David H. Comins

January 9, 2008

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

– Helen Keller

January 10, 2008

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

– Wendell Johnson

January 11, 2008

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

– Frank Herbert

January 12, 2008

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

– Francois de La Rochefoucauld

January 13, 2008

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

– Aneurin Bevan

January 14, 2008

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

– Samuel Butler

January 15, 2008

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

– Dave Barry

January 16, 2008

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

– Sir Winston Churchill

January 17, 2008

Laughter is inner jogging.

– Norman Cousins

January 18, 2008

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

– Isaac Asimov

January 19, 2008

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

– Benjamin Disraeli

January 20, 2008

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again --- this is the brave and happy life.

– J. E. Buchrose

January 21, 2008

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

January 22, 2008

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

– Rudyard Kipling

January 23, 2008

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

– Doug Larson

January 24, 2008

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

– John Churton Collins

January 25, 2008

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

– Kurt Vonnegut

January 26, 2008

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

January 27, 2008

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

– Lewis Carroll, ALICE IN WONDERLAND

January 28, 2008

A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.

– Dutch proverb

January 29, 2008

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

– Paul Gauguin

January 30, 2008

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

– Tom Stoppard

January 31, 2008

Make your life a mission --- not an intermission.

– Arnold Glasgow