August 31st
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
— Virginia Woolf
August 30th
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
August 29th
It is easier to be critical than correct.
— Benjamin Disraeli
August 28th
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
— William Faulkner
August 27th
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
— Cat Stevens
August 26th
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
August 25th
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
— Milan Kundera
August 24th
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere...
— Jane Austen
August 23rd
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.
— Frieda Norris
August 22nd
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
— Mel Brooks
August 21st
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
August 20th
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
— Mark Russell
August 19th
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
— Hector Berlioz
August 18th
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
— A. A. Milne
August 17th
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
— John Locke
August 16th
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
— John Cage
August 15th
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
August 14th
Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
— Carl Jung
August 13th
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
August 12th
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
— Mark Twain
August 11th
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
— James Gould Cozzens
August 10th
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
— Erica Jong
August 9th
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me --- shapes and ideas so near to me --- so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
August 8th
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
— Arthur C. Clarke
August 7th
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
— Jack London
August 6th
Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.
— Alice May Brock
August 5th
A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.
— Sigmund Freud
August 4th
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
— Christopher Hampton
August 3rd
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
— Lynn Hall
August 2nd
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
— Bertrand Russell
August 1st
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
— Herm Albright
