The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. 

~ Anthony Trollope, novelist (24 Apr 1815-1882)

Words without thoughts never to heaven go. 

~ Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (23 Apr 1564-1616) 

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. 

~ Madame de Stael, writer (22 Apr 1766-1817) 

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. 

~ Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (21 Apr 1818-1885) 

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. 

~ Robert Lynd, writer (20 Apr 1879-1949)

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. 

~ Thornton Wilder, writer (17 Apr 1897-1975) 

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. 

~ Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924)

When you’re loved, you doubt nothing. When you love, you doubt everything.

 ~ Colette

A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, - both grammatically and actually, - whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it. 

~ James Branch Cabell, novelist, essayist, critic (14 Apr 1879-1958) 

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. 

~ Christopher Hitchens, author and journalist (13 Apr 1949-2011) 

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. 

~ Anne Lamott, writer (b. 10 Apr 1954) 

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. 

~ Tom Lehrer, singer-songwriter and mathematician (b. 9 Apr 1928) 

Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. 

~ Nicolas de Chamfort, writer (6 Apr 1741-1794)

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

~ Rosalynn Carter

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. 

~ Edward Everett Hale, author (3 Apr 1822-1909) 

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. 

~ Emile Zola, writer (2 Apr 1840-1902) 

Make no judgments where you have no compassion. 

~ Anne McCaffrey, writer (1 Apr 1926-2011) 

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. 

~ Leo Buscaglia, author, speaker and professor (31 Mar 1924-1998) 

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. 

~ Vincent van Gogh, painter (30 Mar 1853-1890) 

When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong. 

~ Richard Dawkins, biologist and author (b. 26 Mar 1941)