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Archives - February 2019

February 1, 2019

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

– Herbert Hoover

February 2, 2019

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

– Jeanne Moreau

February 3, 2019

One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.

– John Madden

February 4, 2019

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

– Emily Dickinson

February 5, 2019

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

– Salman Rushdie

February 6, 2019

The reasons we can't sleep at night are usually the same reasons we don't truly live during the day.

– Michael Xavier

February 7, 2019

A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.

– Frances Ward Weller

February 8, 2019

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

– Ogden Nash

February 9, 2019

If you were to open up a baby's head --- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should --- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

– Dave Barry

February 10, 2019

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

– Zhuangzi

February 11, 2019

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

– Colleen C. Barrett

February 12, 2019

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

– Abraham Lincoln

February 13, 2019

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

– Abhishek Bachchan

February 14, 2019

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

– Pablo Picasso

February 15, 2019

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years --- counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot --- but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

– Lindsay Wagner

February 16, 2019

Where we love is home --- home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

February 17, 2019

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

– Marshall McLuhan

February 18, 2019

A president’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

– Lyndon Johnson

February 19, 2019

We're shooting 100 percent --- 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

– Norm Stewart

February 20, 2019

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

– Lionel Tiger

February 21, 2019

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca, "On Tranquillity of Mind"

February 22, 2019

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

– George Washington

February 23, 2019

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to expect a few blisters.

– Abigail van Buren

February 24, 2019

Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

– Walter Murch

February 25, 2019

I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

– Adeline Knapp

February 26, 2019

Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.

– Frank Sonnenberg

February 27, 2019

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

– Giorgio Baglivi

February 28, 2019

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

– Ellen Glasgow