Wednesday, January 3, 2001
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
----Marcus Tillius, Cicero De Officiis

Wednesday, January 10, 2001
"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
----Phyllis Diller, American comedian

Wednesday, January 17, 2001
"Too clever is dumb."
----Ogden Nash, American author-humorist (1902-1971)

Wednesday, January 24, 2001
"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
----Dave Barry

Wednesday, January 31, 2001
"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
----Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel, American theologian, author and educator (1907-1990)

Wednesday, February 7, 2001
"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
----M. Scott Peck

Wednesday, February 14, 2001
"It is not so much what we have done amiss, as what we have left undone, that will trouble us, looking back."
----Ellen Wood, English playwright and journalist (1813-1887)

Wednesday, February 21, 2001
"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
----Eden Phillpotts

Wednesday, February 28, 2001
"Be nice to people on the way up. They're the same people you'll pass on the way down."
----Jimmy Durante

Wednesday, March 7, 2001
"The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose."
----James Baldwin

Wednesday, March 14, 2001
"The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man."
----Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, English novelist

Wednesday, March 21, 2001
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."
----Mark Twain

Wednesday, March 28, 2001
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
----Anonymous

Wednesday, April 4, 2001
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
----Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wednesday, April 11, 2001
"Nobody ever died of laughter."
----Max Beerbohm, English critic and essayist

Wednesday, April 18, 2001
"You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on."
----Harry S. Truman

Wednesday, April 25, 2001
"To change and to improve are two different things."
----German Proverb

Wednesday, May 2, 2001
"If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory."
----Jefferson Davis

Wednesday, May 9, 2001
"The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other."
----Orson Swett Marden

Wednesday, May 16, 2001
"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
----Ayn Rand

Wednesday, May 23, 2001
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
----Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, May 30, 2001
"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
----Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wednesday, June 6, 2001
"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
----G. K. Chesterton

Wednesday, June 13, 2001
"Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think."
----Neils Bohr

Wednesday, June 20, 2001
"I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a best-seller - my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory."
----David Niven

Wednesday, June 27, 2001
"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary."
----Alfred Hitchcock

Wednesday, July 4, 2001
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
----George Bernard Shaw

Wednesday, July 11, 2001
"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
----Jules Feiffer

Wednesday, July 18, 2001
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
----Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, July 25, 2001
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
----Sir Winston Churchill

Wednesday, August 1, 2001
"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."
----Louis L'Amour

Wednesday, August 8, 2001
"Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men."
----Sydney J. Harris, American journalist

Wednesday, August 15, 2001
"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment."
----George Edward Woodberry

Wednesday, August 22, 2001
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
----Aldous Huxley

Wednesday, August 29, 2001
"Music is the soul of language."
----Max Heindel

Wednesday, September 5, 2001
"We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision."
----Gary Collins

Wednesday, September 12, 2001
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Wednesday, September 19, 2001
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Wednesday, September 26, 2001
"You can kill a man but you cannot kill an idea."
----Medgar Evers

Wednesday, October 3, 2001
"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
----Ben Sweetland

Wednesday, October 10, 2001
"Recognition is the greatest motivator."
----Gerard C. Eakedale

Wednesday, October 17, 2001
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."
----Ernest Hemingway

Wednesday, October 24, 2001
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
----Sir Winston Churchill

Wednesday, October 31, 2001
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
----Isaac Asimov

Wednesday, November 7, 2001
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
----Oscar Wilde

Wednesday, November 14, 2001
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
----Douglas Adams

Wednesday, November 21, 2001
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
----Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wednesday, November 28, 2001
"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
----George Orwell

Wednesday, December 5, 2001
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
----Albert Einstein

Wednesday, December 12, 2001
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
----Robert Frost

Wednesday, December 19, 2001
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
----Mark Twain

Wednesday, December 26, 2001
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