01/31/19

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. -Jonathan Swift

01/30/19

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -Mark Twain

01/29/19

I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize" yourself. -Alicia Witt

01/28/19

One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. -Emile Zola

01/25/19

Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily. -Zig Ziglar

01/24/19

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. -William Arthur Ward

01/23/19

Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. -Gore Vidal

01/22/19

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end -- much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. -Brenda Ueland

01/21/19

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. -Martin Luther King Jr.

01/18/19

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. -Ivan Turgenev

01/17/19

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. -Françoise Sagan

01/16/19

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason. -James Randi

01/15/19

Your voice dries up if you don't use it. -Patti Page

01/14/19

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. -Jawaharlal Nehru

01/11/19

Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate. -John D. MacDonald

01/10/19

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. -Benjamin Franklin

01/09/19

Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly. -Yahia Lababidi

01/08/19

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -Robert F. Kennedy

01/07/19

The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of themselves. -P.D. James

01/04/19

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. -Helen Hayes

01/03/19

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. -Alexander Hamilton

01/02/19

I will offer a choice, not an echo. -Barry Goldwater

01/01/19

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. -Ralph Waldo Emerson