July 31st
The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
— Rachel Carson
July 30th
We don't make mistakes here, we just have happy accidents.
— Bob Ross, from "The Joy of Painting"
July 29th
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
— Coleman Cox
July 28th
There is danger when a man throws his tongue into high gear before he gets his brain a-going.
— C. C. Phelps
July 27th
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
— Carl Jung
July 26th
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
— William Gillmore Simms
July 25th
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
— Ed Howe
July 24th
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
July 23rd
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
— Soren Kierkegaard
July 22nd
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.
— Saki
July 21st
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.
— Groucho Marx
July 20th
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
— Jessamyn West
July 19th
Bridge is a social but not a very sociable game --- that is, if you take it seriously, as most bridge players do.
— Ruth Mills Teague
July 18th
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
— Ray Bradbury
July 17th
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
— Rabindranath Tagore
July 16th
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
July 15th
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
— Henry Waldorf Francis
July 14th
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
— Andrew Carnegie
July 13th
Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
— Ogden Nash
July 12th
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
— John Tillotson
July 11th
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
— Helen Keller
July 10th
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
— Seneca
July 9th
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
— Phyllis Diller
July 8th
Be the change you want to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
July 7th
No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love --- except the housewife.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
July 6th
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
— Zen saying
July 5th
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
— Muhammad Ali
July 4th
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact --- the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
— Adlai Stevenson
July 3rd
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
— Jodie Foster
July 2nd
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
— Sigmund Freud
July 1st
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
— Miles Davis
