November 30th
Wisdom is not in words; wisdom is meaning within words.
— Kahlil Gibran
November 29th
To the right, books; to the left, a tea-cup. In front of me, the fireplace; behind me, the post. There is no greater happiness than this.
— Teiga
November 28th
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
— William Lyon Phelps
November 27th
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
— Kurt Vonnegut
November 26th
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing.... The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
— Annie Dillard
November 25th
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Stephen Vincent Benét
November 24th
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
— Meister Eckhart
November 23rd
The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
— Richard Linklater, in Waking Life
November 22nd
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
November 21st
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
November 20th
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
— Ann Landers
November 19th
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
— Cicero
November 18th
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
— Bertrand Russell
November 17th
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
— Marcus Aurelius
November 16th
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
— Frank Capra
November 15th
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
— Confucius
November 14th
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
— Tom Stoppard
November 13th
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
— Milton Berle
November 12th
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
November 11th
This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
— Elmer Davis
November 10th
Good questions outrank easy answers.
— Paul A. Samuelson
November 9th
I firmly believe that there was an ancient language, the language of the melodies that make us all be understood. The melody of ancient times must resound in our souls so that we may have a human life. The ancient melody, the so many times forgotten melody, the melody of love.
— Jozsef Szombatfalvi
November 8th
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
— Stephen King
November 7th
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
— Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
November 6th
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
— Joseph Addison
November 5th
Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going. Of course, some people never go beyond Expectations, but my job is to hurry them along whether they like it or not.
— Norton Juster in THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
November 4th
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
— Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)
November 3rd
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
— Elizabeth Drew
November 2nd
Man is a make-believe animal --- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
— William Hazlitt
November 1st
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it --- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand --- as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
— Marc Chagall
