Previous Quotes for November:

November 30th
A good home must be made, not bought.
— Joyce Maynard

November 29th
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
— Groucho Marx

November 28th
Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
— William Carleton

November 27th
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
— Alan Perlis

November 26th
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces --- just good food from fresh ingredients.
— Julia Child

November 25th
Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
— Edward Sandford Martin

November 24th
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
— David Letterman

November 23rd
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
— Cicero

November 22nd
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
— John F. Kennedy

November 21st
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
— Jean Cocteau

November 20th
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
— Tryon Edwards

November 19th
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
— Sir Edward Appleton

November 18th
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
— Robert Sternberg

November 17th
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
— Mahatma Gandhi

November 16th
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
— Moshe Dayan

November 15th
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
— Robertson Davies, A VOICE FROM THE ATTIC

November 14th
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
— James F. Byrnes

November 13th
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
— Harlan Ellison

November 12th
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
— George Iles

November 11th
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
— G.K. Chesterton

November 10th
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
— Henry J. Tillman

November 9th
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
— Ursula K. LeGuin

November 8th
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
— Polybius, HISTORY

November 7th
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
— Richard Feynman

November 6th
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
— Benjamin Franklin

November 5th
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
— William Ralph Inge

November 4th
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
— H. L. Mencken

November 3rd
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
— Ronald Reagan

November 2nd
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
— Louis L'Amour

November 1st
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
— D. H. Lawrence

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