July 1st
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
— Stephen Colbert, "The Colbert Report"
July 2nd
Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.
— Samahria Lyte Kaufman
July 3rd
To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.
— Cicero
July 4th
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
— Albert Camus
July 5th
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
— Henry Ward Beecher
July 6th
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
— Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
July 7th
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
— Oscar Wilde, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
July 8th
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
— Ray Bradbury
July 9th
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
— Samuel Johnson
July 10th
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
— General George Patton
July 11th
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
— Mark Twain
July 12th
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
— Nelson Mandela
July 13th
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
— Catherine de Hueck
July 14th
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
— G. K. Chesterton
July 15th
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
— W. Somerset Maugham
July 16th
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
— Benjamin Franklin
July 17th
Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
— Truman Capote
July 18th
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
— Jime Fiebig
July 19th
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
July 20th
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.
— Hodding Carter Jr.
July 21st
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
— Napoleon Hill
July 22nd
My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?
— Erma Bombeck
July 23rd
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
— Anna Quindlen
July 24th
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
— Jackson Pollock
July 25th
There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.
— James Roy Smith
July 26th
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
— John Locke
July 27th
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
— Calvin Coolidge
July 28th
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
— Mary Tyler Moore
July 29th
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
— Ludwig Erhard
July 30th
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
— Joe Ancis
July 31st
A friend is a second self.
— Aristotle
