Quotes about Diaries

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

? The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: 'I don't intend to publish it: I'm merely going to record the facts for the information of God' 'Don't you think God knows the facts?' Bethe asked. 'Yes,' said Szilard, 'He knows the facts, but He does not know THIS VERSION OF THE FACTS.'

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.

Every man is a diary in which he writes one story while intending to write another. His humblest moment is when he compares the two.

Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matter - for that I have determined for myself. Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln. - Salmon P. Chase, diary entry for September 22, 1862, Diary and Correspondence of Salmon P Chase, p. 88 (1903, reprinted 1971). According to the Chase account, Lincoln spoke these words at a cabinet meeting he had called to inform the members of his decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. This quotation is also used in Carl Sandburg, Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, p. 584 (1939). Although these words are not used, the same thought is conveyed in the diary of another member of Lincoln's cabinet, Gideon Welles. See his diary entry for the same date in Diary of Gideon Welles, vol. 1, pp. 142-43 (1911).