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)