May 31st
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
— Clive James
May 30th
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
May 29th
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
— H. Jackson Brown
May 28th
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
— Oscar Wilde
May 27th
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
— Arthur Miller
May 26th
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
— Robert Orben
May 25th
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
— Abraham Maslow
May 24th
I think I've discovered the secret of life --- you just hang around until you get used to it.
— Charles Schulz
May 23rd
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
— Albert Einstein
May 22nd
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
— Luis Bunuel
May 21st
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
— Paul Gauguin
May 20th
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
— W. H. Auden
May 19th
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
— John Keats
May 18th
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
— Roger Babson
May 17th
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
— Frank L. Visco, HOW TO WRITE GOOD
May 16th
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
May 15th
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
— E. B. White
May 14th
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
— Norman R. Augustine
May 13th
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
— Mark B. Cohen
May 12th
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
— Joni Mitchell
May 11th
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
— John Webster
May 10th
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
— Seneca
May 9th
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
— George Carlin
May 8th
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
— Dorothy Canfield Fisher
May 7th
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed to talk.
— Fran Lebowitz
May 6th
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
— David Mamet
May 5th
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
— Robert Frost
May 4th
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
— Schopenhauer
May 3rd
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
May 2nd
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
— Henry Ward Beecher
May 1st
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
— François de La Rouchefoucauld, MAXIMS, 1665
