January 13, 2023
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
―Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American minister and activist)
January 20, 2023
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
―James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888, American theologian and author)
January 27, 2023
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
―Carl Reiner (1922–2020, American author, comedian, and screenwriter)
February 3, 2023
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
―Jerry Seinfeld (b. 1954, American comedian, actor, and writer)
February 10, 2023
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
―Lucy van Pelt, created by Charles Schulz (1922–2000, American cartoonist)
February 17, 2023
Often wrong; never in doubt.
―Theodore Sorensen (1928-2010, American lawyer and presidential advisor)
February 24, 2023
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
―Dave Barry (b. 1947, American author and humorist)
March 3, 2023
One of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.
―James Patterson (b. 1947, American author)
March 10, 2023
The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, brain surgery.
―Robert Cormier (1925–2000, American author and journalist)
March 17, 2023
I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.
―Mae West (1893–1980, American actress)
March 24, 2023
What we think or what we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.
― John Ruskin (1819–1900, English writer, philosopher, and critic )
March 31, 2023
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
― Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977, English comic actor and filmmaker )
April 7, 2023
Easter is the only time of the year when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.
― Anonymous
April 14, 2023
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882, American essayist, philosopher, and poet)
April 21, 2023
You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
―Bonnie Prudden (1914–2011, American physical fitness pioneer)
April 28, 2023
To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
―Louis L’Amour (1908–1988, American novelist)
May 5, 2023
Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
―Albert Einstein (1879–1955, German-born theoretical physicist)
May 12, 2023
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
―Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936, English poet and novelist)
May 19, 2023
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
―Michelangelo (1475–1564, Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet)
May 26, 2023
Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
―George Will (b. 1941, American political commentator)
June 2, 2023
All those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing? It turns out they don’t have all the answers. A lot of them aren’t even asking the right questions. So, if the world’s going to get better, it’s going to be up to you.
―Barack Obama (b. 1961, American politican and 44th president)
June 9, 2023
A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
―James Dent (b. 1953, American author and sportswriter)
June 16, 2023
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
―George Herbert (1593–1633, British poet, orator, and Anglican priest)
June 23, 2023
The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
―Alice Cooper (b. 1948, American rock singer)
June 30, 2023
No drug ... causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.
―P. J. O’Rourke (1947–2022, American political satirist and journalist)
July 7, 2023
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.
―Earl Wilson (1907–1987, American journalist and author)
August 11, 2023
Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
―David Frost (1939–2013, English journalist)
August 18, 2023
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser ... in case you thought optimism was dead.
―Robert Brault (b. 1938, American writer)
August 25, 2023
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
―Michael Caine (b. 1933, British actor)
September 1, 2023
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.
―Guy Kawasaki (b. 1954; American author, speaker, entrepreneur)
September 8, 2023
School is a building which has four walls with tomorrow inside.
―Lon Watters
September 15, 2023
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather. You’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day.
―John Mayer (b. 1977, American musician)
September 22, 2023
The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.
―Laurie Halse Anderson (b. 1961, American author)
September 29, 2023
In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.
―George Carlin (1937–2008, American comedian)
October 6, 2023
The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.
―Jonn Stewart (b. 1962, American comedian and writer)
October 13, 2023
I just went to a seance where everyone sat around resurrecting ghosts from the past. Wait, that was my class reunion!
―Robert Brault (b. 1938, American freelance writer)
October 20, 2023
Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination.
―Dean Koontz (b. 1945, American author)
October 27, 2023
Nothing on earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
―Steve Almond (b. 1966, American short-story writer and essayist)
November 3, 2023
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
―Jimmy Carter (b. 1924; politician and humanitarian, 39th American president)
November 10, 2023
[November] looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.
―Sarah Addison Allen , (b. 1971, American author)
November 17, 2023
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
―Chad Sugg (b. 1986, American singer-songwriter)
November 24, 2023
I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.
―Robert Brault (b. 1938, American freelance writer)
December 1, 2023
A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.
―Mark Twain (1835–1910, American writer and humorist)
December 8, 2023
The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
―Irving Greenberg (b. 1933, American clergyman)
December 15, 2023
Gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
―Oren Arnold (1900–1980, American journalist and novelist)
December 22, 2023
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?
―John Steinbeck (1902–1968, American writer)