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Archives - April 2021

April 1, 2021

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It’s good to be silly at the right moment.

– Horace

April 2, 2021

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

– Carol Matthau

April 3, 2021

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

– Bernard Berenson

April 4, 2021

The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.

– Kate McGahan

April 5, 2021

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

– Paul Beatty

April 6, 2021

There must be more to life than having everything!

– Maurice Sendak

April 7, 2021

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

– Elmer G. Letterman

April 8, 2021

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

– Lane Olinghouse

April 9, 2021

The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.

– Shirley Trusty Corey

April 10, 2021

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

– Holly Lisle, FIRE IN THE MIST

April 11, 2021

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

– Goldie Hawn

April 12, 2021

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

– David Russell

April 13, 2021

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

– Lyman Beecher

April 14, 2021

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

– Chuck Palahniuk, INVISIBLE MONSTERS

April 15, 2021

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself --- and you are the easiest person to fool.

– Richard Feynman

April 16, 2021

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

– Bonnie Prudden

April 17, 2021

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find --- at the age of 50, say --- that a whole new life has opened before you.

– Agatha Christie

April 18, 2021

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

– Cullen Hightower

April 19, 2021

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

– Terry Pratchett, THE FIFTH ELEPHANT

April 20, 2021

It takes so little to make a stranger's day, and even less to totally ruin it.

– Demetri Martin

April 21, 2021

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

– Don Herrold

April 22, 2021

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

– Joseph Joubert

April 23, 2021

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

– David McCullough

April 24, 2021

To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs that could be taken of the world: It offers the reader a frame.

– Nicole Krauss

April 25, 2021

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

– Alfred Hitchcock

April 26, 2021

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

– Swedish Proverb

April 27, 2021

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

– Millicent Fenwick

April 28, 2021

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

– Burt Bacharach

April 29, 2021

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

– George Tooker

April 30, 2021

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

– Amy Dacyczyn