July 31st
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
— Oscar Wilde, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, 1891, preface
July 30th
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
— Carl Sandburg
July 29th
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
July 28th
In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
— Henry Miller, THE BOOKS IN MY LIFE
July 27th
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
— Sir Winston Churchill
July 26th
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
July 25th
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
— Martha Graham
July 24th
Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
— Wilson Mizner
July 23rd
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
— Pablo Picasso
July 22nd
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
— John Stuart Mill
July 21st
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
— George Santayana
July 20th
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
July 19th
The story of a love is not important --- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
— Helen Hayes
July 18th
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
— Pearl Buck
July 17th
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
— King Whitney Jr.
July 16th
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
— Sir Richard Steele
July 15th
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
— Anne Tyler, CELESTIAL NAVIGATION
July 14th
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
— Sir William Osler, to his students
July 13th
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
— Charles Caleb Colton
July 12th
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
— Miriam Beard
July 11th
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
— Rodin
July 10th
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
July 9th
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
— Josh Billings
July 8th
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
— Benjamin Disraeli
July 7th
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
July 6th
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
— Mary MacCracken
July 5th
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
— Christopher Morley
July 4th
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
— Henry Ward Beecher
July 3rd
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
— Martin Luther King Jr., STRENGTH TO LOVE, 1963
July 2nd
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought --- particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.
— Woody Allen
July 1st
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
— Henry Ford
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