September 1st
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
September 2nd
For myself I am an optimist --- it does not seem to be much use being anything
else.
- Sir Winston Churchill
September 3rd
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious,
but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
- H.M. Tomlinson
September 4th
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Fred Allen
September 5th
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments
on journalists and politicians.
- Henrik Ibsen
September 6th
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
- Douglas Adams
September 7th
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't
know'.
- W. Somerset Maugham
September 8th
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness
there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis
September 9th
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.
- Chuck Palahniuk, INVISIBLE MONSTERS
September 10th
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time,
the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
- Edgar W. Howe
September 11th
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that
is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to
be.
- William Hazlitt
September 12th
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber
September 13th
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries,
is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...’
- Issac Asimov
September 14th
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always
feel as if it costs you nothing.
- Simone de Beauvoir
September 15th
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake.
The great affair is to move.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
September 16th
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when
he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 17th
It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
- Steven Wright
September 18th
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough
to know that life is a complex matter.
- Walt Disney
September 19th
Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe,
watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes...they're just
friends waiting to be made.
- Dr. Jeffret Borenstein
September 20th
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
- Benjamin Jowett
September 21st
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get
caught.
- Honore de Balzac
September 22nd
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
- Fran Lebowitz
September 23rd
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would
fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- George Eliot
September 24th
Equations are the devil's sentences.
- Stephen Colbert, "The Colbert Report"
September 25th
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
- Louis Vermeil
September 26th
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it
is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to
know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
- Katherine Anne Porter
September 27th
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is,
you never look down.
- Sean Stewart, PERFECT CIRCLE
September 28th
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
September 29th
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're
scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker
September 30th
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like
a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
