October 31st
GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
— Ambrose Bierce
October 30th
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
— Eric Hoffer
October 29th
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner
October 28th
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
— Marcus Aurelius
October 27th
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
— Albert Einstein
October 26th
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities --- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
October 25th
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
— Matthew Arnold, LITERATURE AND DOGMA, preface to 1883 edition
October 24th
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
— Cicero, PRO PUBLIO SESTIO
October 23rd
Animals are such agreeable friends --- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
— George Eliot, "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story" from SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE
October 22nd
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
— Agatha Christie
October 21st
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
— Bob Newhart
October 20th
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
— Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN
October 19th
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
October 18th
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
— Vincent Van Gogh
October 17th
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
— Ambrose Redmoon
October 16th
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
— George Crane
October 15th
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
— Betty Shabazz
October 14th
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
— Tom Robbins
October 13th
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science.
— Edmund Arthur Helps
October 12th
Love is like pi --- natural, irrational, and very important.
— Lisa Hoffman
October 11th
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
— François de La Rouchefoucauld
October 10th
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
— Stephen King, HEARTS IN ATLANTIS
October 9th
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
— Albert Pike
October 8th
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
— Michel de Montaigne
October 7th
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
— Antonio Machado
October 6th
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
— Baruch Spinoza
October 5th
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
— Helen Keller
October 4th
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
— Norm Crosby
October 3rd
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
— Betty Smith
October 2nd
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
— Molière, THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN
October 1st
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
— Bernard Bailey
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