John Prine - October 10, 1946


“Have you ever noticed / When you're feeling really good / There's always a pigeon / That'll come shit on your hood / Or you're feeling your freedom / And the world's off your back / Some cowboy from Texas / Starts his own war in Iraq.”

Henry Heinz - October 11, 1844

“To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success.”

Susan ANton - October 12, 1950

"I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day."

Leonard Alfred Schneider - October 13, 1925

“The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.”

Dwight David Eisenhower - October 14, 1890

“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.”

Publius Vergilius Maro - October 15, 70 bc

“Fortune favors the bold.”

Henri Bergson - October 18, 1859

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

Annie Smith Peck - October 19, 1850

"Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is the satisfaction of going where no man has been before and where few can follow."

Louis Marshall Jones - October 20, 1913

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Alfred Bernhard Nobel - October 21, 1833

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

Sarah Bernhardt - October 22, 1844

“We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.”

Diana Dors - October 23, 1931

“I said to this priest: 'Am I expected to believe that if I went out and had an affair that God was really going to be upset? Okay, thou shalt not kill... steal... but thou shalt not commit adultery? If no one is any the wiser, what the hell difference does it make?' He was lovely. He told me the Commandments were laid down for a lot of guys living in the desert.”

Sarah J. Hale - October 24, 1788

"Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home."

Sarah Ophelia Colley - October 25, 1912

“Take the back roads instead of the highways.”

Napoleon Hill - October 26, 1883

“The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.”

Dylan Thomas - October 27, 1914

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;
With them forgive yourself.
- William Shakespeare

cd, you're only 6 months and 1 day late... :)

damn! story of my life.....

Desiderius Erasmus - October 28, 1469

“If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.”

Fanny Brice - October 29, 1891

“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?”

Grace Slick - October 30, 1939

“No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.”

John Keats - October 31, 1795

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

Larry Flynt - November 1, 1942

“Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.”

Daniel Boone - November 2, 1734

“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks”

William Cullen Bryant - November 3, 1794

“Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.”

Will Rogers - November 4, 1879

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

Eugene Victor Debs - November 5, 1855

“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”

Charles Henry Dow - November 6, 1851

“The man who begins to speculate in stocks with the intention of making a fortune usually goes broke, whereas the man who trades with a view of getting good interest on his money sometimes gets rich.”

Albert Camus - November 7, 1913

“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”

Bram Stoker - November 8, 1847

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

Leila Marie Koerber - November 9, 1868

“I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.”

Martin Luther - November 10, 1483

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - November 11, 1922

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

^ a january baby...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - November 12, 1815

“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.

-- Australian Aboriginal Proverb

not tryin' to rain on your parade, buddy, but red (warrrreagl) kinda set the parameters for this thread...

Edwin Booth - November 13, 1833

“The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.”

Joseph R. McCarthy - November 14, 1908

“I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five (people) that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”