October 1st
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
— Herman Melville
October 2nd
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
October 3rd
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
— Mark Twain
October 4th
It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
— J.K. Rowling, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE
October 5th
Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.
— Mike Ditka
October 6th
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
— Bertolt Brecht
October 7th
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
— Agnes Repplier
October 8th
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
— Benjamin Franklin
October 9th
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
October 10th
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
— Galileo Galilei
October 11th
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
— Walt Whitman
October 12th
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
— Oscar Levant
October 13th
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
— Arthur Goldberg
October 14th
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
— Madeleine L'Engle
October 15th
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
— Frances Willard
October 16th
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
— Chuck Palahniuk, FIGHT CLUB
October 17th
You see things, and say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”
— George Bernard Shaw
October 18th
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
— Robert Benchley
October 19th
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
— Marshall Ganz
October 20th
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 21st
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in doing.
— William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I:2
October 22nd
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
— Ayn Rand
October 23rd
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
— Socrates
October 24th
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know to lie well.
— Samuel Butler
October 25th
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
— Jonathan Winters
October 26th
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.
— Robertson Davies
October 27th
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
— E. Joseph Cossman
October 28th
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
— Theodore Roosevelt
October 29th
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
October 30th
One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
— Emily Dickinson
October 31st
Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
— Chris Rock
