Day 266

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.

- Robin Casarjean

Day 265

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

- Mark Twain

Day 264

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

- Benjamin Franklin

Day 263

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

- Albert Einstein

Day 262

Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.

- Victor Borge

Day 261

A period is just the beginning of a lifelong sentence.

- Cathy Crimmins

Day 260

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

Day 259

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

- Samuel Johnson

Day 258

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

Day 257

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

- Anna Freud

Day 256

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

- H. G. Wells

Day 255

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 254

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.

- David Allen

Day 253

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

- Jessamyn West

Day 252

Reason has always existed but not always in a reasonable form.

- Karl Marx

Day 251

The only atheism is the denial of truth.

- Arthur Lynch

Day 250

Big shots are only little shots who kept on shooting.

- Dale Carnegie

Day 249

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives

- Annie Dillard

Day 248

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

- Colette

Day 247

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain

Day 246

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

- Francis Rodman

Day 245

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

- Albert Camus

Day 244

Friends are God's apology for relations.

- Hugh Kingsmill

Day 243

None of us is as smart as all of us.

- Ken Blanchard

Day 242

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

- Jennifer Yane

Day 241

God never made his work for man to mend.

- John Dryden

Day 240

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

- Abe Lemons

Day 239

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock

Day 238

There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbour's.

- Clyde Moore

Day 237

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

- Richard Armour

Day 236

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

- P. G. Wodehouse

Day 235

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

- Michel de Montaigne

Day 234

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.

- Anonymous

Day 233

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

- Anne Petry

Day 232

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

- Marshall Lumsden

Day 231

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

- M. Kathleen Casey

Day 230

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

- Paul Eldridge

Day 229

As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you.

- Toto

Day 228

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

- Kurt Lewin

Day 227

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

- Richard Bach

Day 226

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

- Ed Howe

Day 225

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

- Robert Southey

Day 224

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Day 223

The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.

- Gloria Steinem

Day 222

One rose says more than the dozen

- Wendy Craig

Day 221

Under Capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's exactly the opposite.

- Anonymous

Day 220

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

- Elbert Hubbard

Day 219

A good book has no ending.

- R. D. Cumming

Day 218

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.

- Max Kauffman

Day 217

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

- Jim Ryun

Day 216

Death is a debt we all must pay.

- Euripides

Day 215

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

- Malachy McCourt

Day 214

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

- Edward Dahlbert

Day 213

Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.

- Robert H. Schuller

Day 212

Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Day 211

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

- Merry Browne

Day 210

There are always two people in every picture:  the photographer and the viewer.

- Ansel Adams

Day 209

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

- Jerry Seinfeld

Day 208

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

- Robin Williams

Day 207

Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

- George E. Bergman

Day 206

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 205

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

- Frank Sinatra

Day 204

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

- Erma Bombeck

Day 203

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

Day 202

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

- Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Day 201

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

- Johnny Carson

Day 200

Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life’s problems.

- Homer Simpson

Day 199

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 198

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

- Albert Einstein

Day 197

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

- Mac McCleary

Day 196

I’ve developed a new philosophy… I only dread one day at a time.

- Charlie Brown (Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz)

Day 195

Thoughts come clearly while one walks.

- Thomas Mann

Day 194

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.

- Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson)

Day 193

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they’re looking for ideas.

- Paula Poundstone

Day 192

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 191

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

- Will Rogers

Day 190

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

- Dave Barry

Day 189

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

- Bob Hope

Day 188

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

- Ani Difranco

Day 187

It is never too late to be what you might have been.


- George Eliot

Day 186

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
- Joseph Heller (Something Happened)

Day 185

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

- Albert Einstein

Day 184

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

- Mother Teresa

Day 183

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.

- Anonymous

Day 182

True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 181

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

- Isaac Friedmann

Day 180

Humor is reason gone mad.

- Groucho Marx

Day 179

You were born an original. Don't die a copy.

- John Mason

Day 178

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

- Korman's Law

Day 177

He conquers who endures.

- Persius

Day 176

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

- Richard J. Needham

Day 175

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

- Samuel Butler (Erewhon)

Day 174

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

- Anonymous

Day 173

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Day 172

A child is a curly dimpled lunatic.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day 171

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

- Socrates

Day 170

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

- Anonymous

Day 169

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

- Nicholas Sparks

Day 168

I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you.

- Anonymous

Day 167

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

- Tryon Edwards

Day 166

A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism.

- Louis A. Berman

Day 165

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

- Claudia Ghandi

Day 164

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

- Stephen King

Day 163

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

- Charles Darwin

Day 162

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

- Calvin Coolidge

Day 161

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

- Chili Davis

Day 160

Love in practice is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.

- Franz Jagerstatterr

Day 159

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

- Audrey Hepburn

Day 158

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

- Mark Twain

Day 157

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 156

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of somebody else.

- Judy Garland

Day 155

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

Day 154

Dream as if you’ll live forever; live as if you’ll die today.

- James Dean

Day 153

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Day 152

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

- Gore Vidal

Day 151

There’s nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

- Robert De Niro

Day 150

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 149

When you’re not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

- Larry David

Day 148

We die only once, and for such a long time.

- Moliere

Day 147

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain

Day 146

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson : you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

- Owens Lee Pomeroy

Day 145

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

- Albert Einstein

Day 144

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

Day 143

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

- Ansel Adams

Day 142

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.

- Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan)

Day 141

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Day 140

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage.

- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Day 139

Valentine's Day is when a lot of married men are reminded what a poor shot Cupid really is.

- Anonymous

Day 138

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.

- Anonymous

Day 137

When love is not madness, it is not love.

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Day 136

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

Day 135

A brother is a friend given by Nature.

- Jean Baptiste Legouve

Day 134

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

- Robert Byrne

Day 133

The art of love... is largely the art of persistence.

- Albert Ellis

Day 132

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

- Bil Keane (Family Circus)

Day 131

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

- Mark Twain

Day 130

Divorce : The past tense of marriage.

- Anonymous

Day 129

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

Day 128

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- E. E. Cummings

Day 127

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.

- Gloria Leonard

Day 126

Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.

- Anonymous

Day 125

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

- Mark Twain (Notebooks)

Day 124

The past is not a package one can lay away.

- Emily Dickinson

Day 123

Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.

- Robert M. Hutchins

Day 122

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

- William Shakespeare

Day 121

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

- Confucius

Day 120

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

- Voltaire

Day 119

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

- Albert Einstein

Day 118

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

- Dave Tyson Gentry

Day 117

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

- Chinese Proverb

Day 116

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

- William J. Bennett (The Book of Virtues)

Day 115

A good book on your shelf is a friend that turns its back on you and remains a friend.

- Anonymous

Day 114

Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.

- Joe Clark

Day 113

When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.

- H. G. Wells

Day 112

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

- Oliver Herford

Day 111

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

- Isaac Newton

Day 110

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.

- Anonymous

Day 109

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

Day 108

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

- Dr. Seuss

Day 107

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

- Michael Jackson

Day 106

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

- Albert Einstein

Day 105

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

- Confucius

Day 104

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

- Abraham Lincoln

Day 103

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

- Frank Leahy

Day 102

The noblest vengeance is to forgive.

- Anonymous

Day 101

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 100

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

- Christopher Reeve

Day 99

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

- Jennifer Aniston

Day 98

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

- Marilyn Monroe

Day 97

Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Day 96

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

- Douglas Coupland

Day 95

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

- Albert Einstein

Day 94

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

- Dorothy Parker

Day 93

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Day 92

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas A. Edison

Day 91

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

- J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

Day 90

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

Day 89

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Day 88

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 87

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

- Christina Baldwin

Day 86

God : The most popular scapegoat for our sins.

- Mark Twain

Day 85

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

- Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson)

Day 84

All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Lucy Van Pelt (Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz)

Day 83

Trying is the first step towards failure.

- Homer Simpson

Day 82

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

- Anthony Powell

Day 81

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

- Dilbert

Day 80

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

Day 79

It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.

- Charlie Brown (Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz)

Day 78

Curve : The loveliest distance between two points.

- Mae West

Day 77

Fatigue is the best pillow.

- Benjamin Franklin

Day 76

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

- Dolly Parton

Day 75

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 74

There is but one degree of commitment; total.

- Arnie Sherr

Day 73

You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

- Dr. Seuss

Day 72

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

- Woody Allen

Day 71

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.

- Charlie Brown (Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz)

Day 70

History is written by the victors.

- Winston Churchill

Day 69

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 68

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

Day 67

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

- George Burns

Day 66

Whatever you are, be a good one.

- Abraham Lincoln

Day 65

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

- Mark Twain

Day 64

God has no religion.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Day 63

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

- Albert Einstein

Day 62

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

- Tertullian

Day 61

Things last either too long, or not long enough.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 60

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

- Jack Handey

Day 59

He who's not busy being born is busy dying.

- Bob Dylan

Day 58

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

Day 57

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

- Ray Bradbury

Day 56

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

Day 55

A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be.

- Anonymous

Day 54

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Day 53

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 52

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

Day 51

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

- Voltaire

Day 50

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Day 49

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

- Jimi Hendrix

Day 48

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

- Mark Twain

Day 47

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

Day 46

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

- Anne Frank

Day 45

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.

- Joan Welsh

Day 44

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

- E. Joseph Cossman

Day 43

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

- Henry Ford

Day 42

Absence : that common cure of love.

- Lord Byron

Day 41

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

Day 40

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

- Barack Obama

Day 39

Hope. It is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength and your greatest weakness.

- The Architect (Matrix Reloaded)

Day 38

I thought I'd forget you, but I guess I forgot to.

- Anonymous

Day 37

The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

- James York

Day 36

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

- Lewis Carroll

Day 35

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

- Lemony Snicket

Day 34

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

- Anthony Robbins

Day 33

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

- Dion Boucicault

Day 32

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

- Maxwell Maltz

Day 31

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

- Dave Barry

Day 30

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 29

Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it.

- Frederick Leith-Ross

Day 28

All love is unrequited. All of it.

- J. Michael Straczynski

Day 27

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

- Horace

Day 26

Short prayers reach heaven.

- Anonymous

Day 25

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.

- Usman B. Asif

Day 24

It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me.

- Christian Bale (Batman Begins)

Day 23

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 22

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Day 21

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

- Jane Austen

Day 20

Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.

- Anonymous

Day 19

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

- Albert Einstein

Day 18

Critics, like other people, see what they look for, not what is actually before them.

- George Bernard Shaw

Day 17

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

- Eleanor Powell

Day 16

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 15

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

- Franklin P. Jones

Day 14

We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

- Anonymous

Day 13

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

- John Lubbock

Day 12

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein

Day 11

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; When little fears grow great, great love grows there.

- William Shakespeare

Day 10

Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

- Oscar Wilde

Day 9

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.

- Robert Pirsig

Day 8

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

- Julia Roberts (Notting Hill)

Day 7

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

- Charles M. Schulz (Peanuts)

Day 6

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.

- Anonymous

Day 5

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

- Charlie Brown (Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz)

Day 4

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

- Aristotle

Day 3

The sad truth is the truth is sad.

- Lemony Snicket ('The Hostile Hospital')

Day 2

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

- C. P. Snow

Day 1

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

- Albert Einstein