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“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.” |
Sidney Lanier - February 3, 1842
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.” |
Mark Hopkins - February 4, 1802
"Language is the picture and counterpart of thought." |
William S. Burroughs - February 5, 1914
“I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.” |
Zsa Zsa Gabor - February 6, 1917
“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.” |
Aaron Burr - February 6th, 1756
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.” |
Sir Thomas More - February 7, 1478
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” |
William Tecumsen Sherman - February 8, 1820
“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.” |
Bill Veeck - February 9, 1914
“I’m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can’t be done.” |
Jimmy Durante - February 10, 1893
“Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!” |
Eva Gabor - February 11, 1921
“I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!” |
Charles Darwin February 12, 1809
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” |
Tennessee Ernie Ford - February 13, 1919
"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material." |
Benjamin Kubelsky - February 14, 1894
“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.” |
Galileo Galilei - February 15, 1564
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” |
Van Wyck Brooks - February 16, 1886
“If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?” |
Thomas Malthus - February 17, 1766
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.” |
Andres Segovia - February 18, 1894
“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.” |
Nicolas Copernicus - February 19, 1473
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe." |
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William Prescott - February 20, 1726
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." |
Wystan Hugh Auden - February 21, 1907
"For poetry makes nothing happen.” |
Robert Baden-Powell - February 22, 1857
“The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.” |
Samuel Pepys - February 23, 1633
“Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.” |
Chester Nimitz - February 24, 1885
“A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.” |
Millicent Fenwick - February 25, 1910
“The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be - and that's so tempting.” |
Victor Hugo - February 26, 1802
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes." |
John Steinbeck - February 27, 1902
“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.” |
Sir John Tenniel - February 28, 1820
"Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block." |
Roger Daltry - March 1, 1944
“It was a period when the record industry was growing so fast and the business couldn't keep up. Bands were leading the way; it was driven by the art and not the business. Now it's driven by the business.” |
Theodor S. Geisel - March 2, 1904
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” |
Jean Harlow - March 3, 1911
“No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.” |
Knute Rockne - March 4, 1888
“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.” |
Lucy Larcom - March 5, 1824
“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.” |
Lou Costello - March 6, 1906
"A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed." |
Pieter Mondrian - March 7, 1872
"All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color." |
Oliver Wendell Holmes - March 8, 1841
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” |
Leland Stanford - March 9, 1824
"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed." |
Friedrich Von Schlegel - March 10,1772
“One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.” |
Torquato Tasso - March 11, 1544
“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.” |
Jack Kerouac - March 12, 1922
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.” |
L. Ron Hubbard - March 13, 1911
“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.” |
Albert Einstein - March 14, 1879
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” |
Jimmy Lee Swaggart - March 15, 1935
“I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died.” |
Henny Youngman - March 16, 1906
"Take my wife...please." |
Roger Taney - March 17, 1777
“If any of its provisions (Constitution) are deemed unjust, there is a mode prescribed in the instrument itself to which it may be amended, but while it remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption.” |
Grover Cleveland - March 18, 1837
“No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.” |
William Jennings Bryan - March 19, 1860
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” |
B.F. Skinner - March 20, 1904
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” |
Benito Juarez - March 21, 1806
“Among individuals, as among nations, peace is the respect of others' rights." |
Chico Marx - March 22, 1887
“I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.” |
Akira Kurosawa - March 23, 1910
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.” |
Andrew Mellon - March 24, 1855
“Gentlemen prefer bonds.” |
Howard Cosell - March 25, 1920
"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give." |
Bob Woodward - March 26, 1943
“Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?” |
Edward Steichen - March 27, 1879
“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper; the photographer begins with the finished product.” |
Paul Whiteman - March 28, 1890
"Jazz is the folk music of the machine age." |
Cy Young - March 29, 1867
“The one thing you have to have is patience ... You just can't rush everything. I use myself as an example. The last couple of years have been great, but it took some time to get up to that point.” |
Rolf Harris - March 30, 1930
"Tie me kangaroo down, sport..." |
Rene Descartes - March 31, 1596
"Cogito, ergo sum." |
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand
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“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” |
Giovanni Casanova - April 2, 1725
“I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.” |
William M. Tweed - April 3, 1823
"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." |
Dorothea Dix - April 4, 1802
“Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.” |
Thomas Hobbes - April 5, 1588
“There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.” |
Lowell Thomas - April 6, 1892
“Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.” |
John McGraw - April 7, 1873
“Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.” |
Guatama Buddha = April 8, 563 BC
“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” |
Charles P. Steinmetz - April 9, 1865
“There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions." |
Lew Wallace - April 10, 1827
“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.” |
Ellen Goodman - April 11, 1941
“Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.” |
Sally Rand - April 12, 1903
“Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.” |
Madalyn Murray O’Hair - April 13, 1919
“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.” |
Arnold Toynbee - April 14, 1889
“A life which does not go into action is a failure.” |
Leonardo da Vinci - April 15, 1452
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” |
Wilbur Wright - April 16, 1867
“Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.” |
Harry Reasoner - April 17, 1923
"We're all controlled neurotics." |
Clarence Darrow - April 18, 1857
“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.” |
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David Ricardo - April 19, 1772
“Rent is the portion of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the user of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.” |
Adolf Hitler - April 20, 1889
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” |
Friedrich Froebel - April 21, 1782
“. . . because learning begins when consciousness erupts, education must also.” |
Immanuel Kant - April 22, 1724
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” |
James Buchanan - April 23, 1791
“What is right and what is practicable are two different things.” |
Robert Penn Warren - April 24, 1905
“A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.” |
Edward R. Murrow = April 25, 1908
“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” |
Anita Loos - April 26, 1893
“I'm furious about the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.” |
Edward Gibbon - April 27, 1737
“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.” |
James Monroe - April 28, 1758
“National honor is the national property of the highest value.” |
Lonnie Donegan - April 29, 1931
"Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?" |
Cornelius Vanderbilt - April 30, 1898
"You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you." |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe - May 1, 1764
“A more strange sound than any that is heard anywhere else in the world. It is a more incessant, loud, rapid, and various gabble of tongues of all tones than was ever heard at Babel.” |
Ekaterina Alekseevna - 1729
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.” |
Pete Seeger - May 3, 1919
“Where have all the flowers gone?” |
Horace Mann - May 4, 1796
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” |
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman - May 5, 1865
"What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing." |
Maximilien Robespierre - May 6, 1758
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all." |
Eva Peron - May 7, 1919
"I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go." |
Francis Desales Ouimet - May 8, 1893
"Don't ever talk to my caddy again." |
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