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Archives - May 2007

May 1, 2007

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

– Meredith Willson, The Music Man

May 2, 2007

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

– Dylan Thomas

May 3, 2007

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.

– W. Lee Grant

May 4, 2007

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

– Amy Dacyczyn

May 5, 2007

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

– Rita Mae Brown, STARTING FROM SCRATCH

May 6, 2007

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

– T.S. Elliot

May 7, 2007

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

– Jonathan Winters

May 8, 2007

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

– Maria Edgeworth

May 9, 2007

Before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

– Harper Lee, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

May 10, 2007

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

– Edith Wharton

May 11, 2007

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.

– Hans Christian Andersen

May 12, 2007

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

– Charles M. Schulz

May 13, 2007

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

– Lisa Alther

May 14, 2007

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

– John le Carré

May 15, 2007

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

– Emily Post

May 16, 2007

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time for him to feed on it.

– C. S. Lewis

May 17, 2007

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, Act III

May 18, 2007

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

– William Arthur Ward

May 19, 2007

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

– Tom Stoppard

May 20, 2007

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

– Anna Quindlen, A SHORT GUIDE TO A HAPPY LIFE

May 21, 2007

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

May 22, 2007

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

– Tom Robbins

May 23, 2007

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

– Hillary Clinton

May 24, 2007

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

– Eric Hoffer

May 25, 2007

Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.

– Alphonse Karr

May 26, 2007

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

– Franklin P. Jones

May 27, 2007

You must never feel badly about making mistakes, explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

– Norton Juster, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

May 28, 2007

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 29, 2007

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

– Amy Tan, THE HUNDRED SECRET SENSES

May 30, 2007

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

– Arthur Schopenhauer, STUDIES IN PESSIMISM

May 31, 2007

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

– Joseph Addison