October 31st
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
— Agatha Christie
October 30th
Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.
— Mark Twain
October 29th
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
— A. A. Milne
October 28th
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
— John Steinbeck
October 27th
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
— Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty"
October 26th
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
— Charles M. Schulz; Charlie Brown, in Peanuts
October 25th
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
— Kurt Vonnegut
October 24th
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
— A. J. Liebling
October 23rd
Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.
— Sanskrit Proverb
October 22nd
Humor is a rubber sword it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
— Mary Hirsch
October 21st
One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
October 20th
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
— Groucho Marx
October 19th
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."
— Hilaire Belloc
October 18th
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
October 17th
This is the true measure of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
— Goethe
October 16th
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
— Buddha
October 15th
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
— Sacha Guitry
October 14th
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
— Oscar Wilde
October 13th
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
— Soren Kierkegaard
October 12th
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 11th
After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
— Albert Camus, L'Etranger
October 10th
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
October 9th
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
— Jean de La Bruyere
October 8th
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
— Gustave Flaubert, Madam Bovary
October 7th
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
— Bertrand Russell
October 6th
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
— Epictetus
October 5th
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
— Franklin P. Jones
October 4th
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
— Theodore Roosevelt
October 3rd
Come to the edge he said; We are afraid they said. Come to the edge he said; They came. He pushed them; and they flew.
— Guillaume Appolinaire
October 2nd
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
— Umberto Eco
October 1st
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
— Mark Twain
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