| "I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.'" »Anthony Lake |
| "commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information." »W, Willard Wirtz |
| "Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity." »Dan Custer |
| "I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say 'What is my exciting thing for today' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow." »Barbara Charline Jordan |
| "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." »Christopher Morley |
| "Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day." »Godfather, The |
| "If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods." »Epictetus |
| "Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved." »Augusta E. Rundell |
| "The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult the day he forgives himself he becomes wise." »Alden Nowlan |
| "Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time." »Dr. Lillian Troll |
| "Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone." »Rodney Dangerfield |
| "Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15." »Ronald Reagan |
| "People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong." »Bill Vaughan |
| "I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life" »Child Age 15 |
| "Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh." »Francis Bacon |
| "The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits." »Ernest Hemingway |
| "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." »F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| "Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." »Kathleen Norias |
| "Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists." »H.L. Mencken |
| "We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong." »Bill Vaughan |
| "Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day." »Vernon Howard |
| "We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story." »Mary McCarthy |
| "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..." »Robert J. Collier |
| "The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth." »Marvin D. Levy |
| "Most turkeys taste better the day after my mother's tasted better the day before." »Rita Rudner |
| "The only difference between a Good day And a Bad day Is your ATTITUDE" »Dennis S. Brown |
| "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year." »Horace Mann |
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