Welcome, my friends, to another enlightening edition of Great Quotes, a monthly compendium of, well, great quotes collected from all over.

Hey, since we’re in the middle of our What I Learned From… Change group writing project, perhaps you can use them as inspiration for changing something in your own life! I think you’ll agree they may even impart a bit of wisdom – along with a bit of fun.

So, if you find yourself searching for some encouragement, inspiration or perhaps even just a chuckle or two, you’ve come to the right place! Check these out:

• The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth they do not want to hear. – Herbert Agar
• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. – Jackie Mason
• You can’t have everything. Where would you put it? – Stephen Wright
• A short saying oft contains much wisdom. – Sophocles
• Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities. – Frank Lloyd Wright
• The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a great deal of rubbish. – Robert Jackson
• So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker
• If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s me. – Jimmy Buffet
• A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop. – Unknown
• If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going. – Professor Irwin Cory
• Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose. – Evan Eser
• The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. – Noelie Altito
• The difference between a violin and a viola is a viola burns longer. – Victor Borge
• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lighting bug. – Mark Twain
• Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. – Dame Edna Everage
• I have learned to use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution. – Wernher von Braun
• You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. – Olin Miller
• Don’t accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange. – Robin Moran
• Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. – Darby Conley
• An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an annoyance wrongly considered. – G. K. Chesterton
• The glory of great men should always be measured by the means by which they acquired it. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• The prime purpose of eloquence it to keep other people from talking. – Louis Vermeil
• The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright

And finally, if you’re one of the millions out there who ever said to themselves, “Selves, I think I’ll write a book!”, well here’s some wonderfully unsolicited advice from Edward Gibbon:

• Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.