January |
"Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not."
- Baltasar Gracián (1601-58) Spanish philosopher |
February |
"… I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning."
- James Joyce (1882-1941) Irish writer |
March |
"Personal relationships are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams [e-mail] and anger."
- E.M. Forster (1879-1970) English writer |
April |
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
- T.H. Huxley (1825-95) English biologist |
May |
"If a man does not make a new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-84) English poet, critic and lexicographer |
June |
"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."
- Mme Du Deffand (Marie de Vichy-Chamrond) (1697-1780) French literary hostess |
July |
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes—ah, that is where the art resides!"
- Artur Schnabel (1882-1951),
Austrian-born pianist |
August |
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do!"
- Willa Cather (1873-1947),
American novelist |
September |
"Without them [feelings] there would be not I. And without me who will experience them? They are right near by. But we don't know what causes them. It seems there is a True Lord who does so, but there is no indication of his existence."
- Chuang Tzu (369-286 BC),
Chinese philosopher |
October |
"Junk is the ideal product ... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
- William S. Burroughs (1914-97),
American novelist |
November |
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) 1819-80,
English novelist
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December |
"What lies beneath all the tinsel, wrapped beneath the Christmas tree, inside the human heart? Is it an empty box we try to fill from outside? Or is that box filled with something we allow to grow from within? Sometimes the most precious present we can give ourselves, and one we too often forget, is what remains rooted and grows from our own character?"
- Anonymous |
