November 30th
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
— Voltaire
November 29th
A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.
— John Steinbeck
November 28th
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
— Mark Twain
November 27th
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
— Tom Stoppard
November 26th
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
— Philip K. Dick
November 25th
All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
November 24th
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
— George Bernard Shaw
November 23rd
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
— Alexander Woollcott
November 22nd
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
November 21st
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
November 20th
Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
— Houssaye
November 19th
Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.
— Jacob M. Braude
November 18th
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
— Thomas Jefferson
November 17th
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau
November 16th
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
— E. E. Cummings
November 15th
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
— Last words of Humphrey Bogart
November 14th
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
— Charles Dudley Warner
November 13th
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
November 12th
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.
— William Faulkner
November 11th
We make war that we may live in peace.
— Aristotle
November 10th
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
— Tom Stoppard
November 9th
I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
— Abraham Lincoln
November 8th
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
— Dorothy Parker
November 7th
I'm the one who has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
— Jimi Hendrix
November 6th
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
November 5th
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
— Walt Whitman
November 4th
Some people read quotes for guidance, I read them to see if they are true.
— John Arbizo
November 3rd
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
— Harold Wilson
November 2nd
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
— H. F. Hedge
November 1st
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
— Ernest Hemingway
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