February 28th
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
— Sam Ewing
February 27th
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich
February 26th
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
— Democritus
February 25th
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
— Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, MEDITATIONS, 200 A.D.
February 24th
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
— James A. Garfield
February 23rd
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
— Josh Billings
February 22nd
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
February 21st
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
February 20th
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
— Cyril Connolly, ENEMIES OF PROMISE (1938)
February 19th
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
February 18th
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
— Henry Ward Beecher
February 17th
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
— Pablo Picasso
February 16th
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
— Harry S. Truman, Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
February 15th
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
— Charles Dickens
February 14th
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.
— Kay Knudsen
February 13th
If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
— Brendan Francis
February 12th
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
— Abraham Lincoln
February 11th
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
— Petrarch, DE REMEDIES
February 10th
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
— Rene Descartes
February 9th
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
— Groucho Marx
February 8th
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
— Susan Ertz, ANGER IN THE SKY
February 7th
Words have a longer life than deeds.
— Pindar, NEMEAN ODES
February 6th
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
— Laurence J. Peter, THE PETER PRINCIPLE (1969), Chapter 1
February 5th
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
— Cicero
February 4th
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
— Henry C. Link
February 3rd
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
— Judith Martin (Miss Manners)
February 2nd
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
— Erica Jong
February 1st
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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