August 1st
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
— Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
August 2nd
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.
— Stephenie Meyer, TWILIGHT
August 3rd
I dream, therefore I become.
— Cheryl Renée Grossman
August 4th
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
— Franklin P. Adams
August 5th
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
— George Carlin, BRAIN DROPPINGS
August 6th
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
— Isaac Asimov
August 7th
There is really nothing more to say --- except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.
— Toni Morrison, THE BLUEST EYE
August 8th
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
— Walt Whitman
August 9th
The beginning is always today.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
August 10th
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
— Joe Walsh
August 11th
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.
— Franklin P. Jones
August 12th
Crime does not pay...as well as politics.
— Alfred E. Newman
August 13th
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
— Victor Hugo, LES MISÉRABLES
August 14th
I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: 'Ohhh my God, you're thin.'
— Ellen DeGeneres
August 15th
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
— Mitch Albom, THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN
August 16th
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
— Henry Ford
August 17th
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
August 18th
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
— Johnny Carson
August 19th
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
— W. Somerset Maugham, THE PAINTED VEIL
August 20th
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
— Confucius
August 21st
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
— Sydney J. Harris
August 22nd
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
— Louis L'Amour
August 23rd
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
— Helmuth von Moltke
August 24th
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world --- not even our troubles.
— Charlie Chaplin
August 25th
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
August 26th
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
— Ayn Rand
August 27th
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
— Stephen Vincent Benet, "Litany for Dictatorships"
August 28th
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
— George Washington
August 29th
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
— Martin Mull
August 30th
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
— Arnold Palmer
August 31st
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
