Previous Quotes for December:

December 31st
Time heals what reason cannot.
— Seneca

December 30th
‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
— John Sheffield

December 29th
Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those. … Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
— Mark Twain

December 28th
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
— Pete Seeger

December 27th
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

December 26th
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie

December 25th
Do give books - religious or otheriwse - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
— Lenore Hershey

December 24th
Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
— Carol Nelson

December 23rd
Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.
— Richard Lamm

December 22nd
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
— Mahatma Gandhi

December 21st
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four; calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
— Abraham Lincoln

December 20th
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
— Albert Camus

December 19th
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
— Cary Grant

December 18th
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anais Nin

December 17th
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
— Lin Yutang

December 16th
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
— Barry Switzer

December 15th
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
— Henry Kissinger

December 14th
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
— Flannery O’Conner

December 13th
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
— James Russell Lowell

December 12th
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

December 11th
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle

December 10th
We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
— W. H. Auden

December 9th
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
— Leonard Louis Levinson

December 8th
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
— Herman Melville

December 7th
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
— Sam Goldwyn

December 6th
Even if you are Catholic, if you live in New York you're Jewish. If you live in Butte, Montana, you are going to be goyish even if you are Jewish.
— Lenny Bruce

December 5th
Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
— Ernie Kovacs

December 4th
With faith, there are no questions; without faith there are no answers.
— The Chofetz Chaim

December 3rd
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
— Fred Allen

December 2nd
People were given two ears and one tongue so that they may listen more than speak.
— Jewish folk saying

December 1st
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.
— Sam Levenson

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