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Howdy, y’all! Hey, since next week is going to be something special (come back tomorrow and you can read all about it), I’m posting this month’s Great Quotes a bit earlier than usual.

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. I think you’ll agree they may even impart a bit of wisdom - along with a bit of fun!

Check these out:

• It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. - Enrico Fermi
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create. - Albert Einstein.
• Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. - Fred Allen
• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson
• It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• You can’t keep blaming yourself; just blame yourself once and move on. - Homer Simpson
• We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. - Bill Vaughan
• Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
• That we are smarter than algae is a given. Whether we are wiser remains an open question. - Robert Frenay
• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert
• If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? - Laurence J. Peter
• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Dorothy Parker
• There are no wrong decisions, only different paths. - Amy Palko

And finally, for a point to ponder on personal hygiene, I give you:

• People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing - that’s why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar

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Howdy, y’all!

Hey, it’s April Fool’s Day here at the Zone! (Or, “Robert’s Day”, as it’s officially known around these parts.) Actually, I suppose it’s probably April Fool’s day where you are too. (Awright - I can hear those snide remarks, you know. Some of you think it’s always a bit foolish around here. I want you to know I resemble that remark! Because it’s, er, true.)

Anyway, I was a bit busy last week, so this edition of Great Quotes is a bit late. But what the heck - who cares, right? Just remember, if you’re searching for some encouragement, inspiration or perhaps even just a chuckle or two, well, you’ve come to the right place. I think you’ll agree they may even impart a bit of wisdom - along with a bit of fun!

Check these out:

• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

• There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. - Robert Byrne

• Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

• As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. - Hagar the Horrible

• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell

• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Sir Richard Steele

• I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

• He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. - Abraham Lincoln

• My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared. - P. J. Plauger

• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

• A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson

• The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. - Bertrand Russell

• Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. - Sir Arthur Eddington

• Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers

And this month, in honor of April Fool’s Day and all fools everywhere (it’s good to know I’m in such great company!), I give you:

• This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them. - Bertrand Russell

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It’s the end of yet another interesting month here at the Zone (and one with an extra day in it, no less!), and it’s time for another inspiring edition of Great Quotes. 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.

I think you’ll agree they may even impart a bit of wisdom - along with a bit of fun! Check these out:

• The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. - Agnes De Mille
• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H. L. Mencken
• We must walk consciously only part way towards our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. - Thoreau
• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. - Frank Herbert
• Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. - John Lennon
• I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What good would that do? - Ronnie Shakes
• If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around. - Unknown
• A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. - Grace Murray Hopper
• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie
• Don’t wait for your ship to come in. Row out and meet it. - Jeanne Dininni’s Aunt
• For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty people who don’t want to learn–much. - W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
• Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield
• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Winston Churchill
• Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long. - Leonard Bernstein
• The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture. - Ken Langone
• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke
• If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln
• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton
• Champions take risk, and pressure is privilege. - Billy Jean King

And as food for thought, here’s a particularly powerful point to ponder from one of the best known names in Business today:

• If you can’t think of anything or anyone to say “Thank you” to - I suggest you go see a shrink. - Tom Peters

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Well, folks; here we are at the end of yet another month, and you know what that means, right? Yep, it’s time for another inspiring edition of Great Quotes. 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:

• My work is a game, a very serious game. – M. C. Escher
• Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity; naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do. – Steve Martin
• The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. – Benjamin Disraeli
• Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. – Lynda Barry
• I arise in the morning torn between the desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. That makes it hard to plan the day. – E.B. White
• There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. – Denis Diderot
• It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. – Aeschylus
• About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. – Herbert Hoover
• Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. – Anonymous
• The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. – G.K. Chesterton
• Our desire to act overpowers our need to understand. – Brad Powers
• Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. – Unknown
• There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. – Don Herold
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. – Dorothy Neville
• Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. – Ronald Reagan
• If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti
• A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright

And as final food for thought, here’s a good one from, not the inventor of the assembly line, but the guy who really figured out how to make it work:

• You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. – Henry Ford

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Well, folks; here we are at the end of yet another month, and you know what that means, right? Yep, it’s time for another inspiring edition of Great Quotes. I think you’ll agree they may even impart a bit of wisdom – along with perhaps just 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:

• In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. – Albert Schweitzer
• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. – Will Rogers
• I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. – Jane Austen
• I have opinions of my own — strong opinions — but I don’t always agree with them. – George Bush
• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Soren Kierkegaard
• A synonym is a word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of. – Burt Bacharach
• Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. – Jim Morrison
• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. – Dick Cavett
• Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? – Harry Shearer
• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. – Ronald Reagan
• Never knock on Death’s door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that! – Matt Frewer
• If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day. – John Wheeler
• Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. – Evan Esar
• The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – John Kenneth Galbraith
• A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. – Daniel Webster
• Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer
• One man that has a mind and knows it can, always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t. – George Bernard Shaw
• Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. – Cullen Hightower

And finally, as an encouraging word of advice for the coming new year, there’s this little jewel of wisdom:

• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

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Well, it’s the end of another exciting month, and you know what that means, right? Yep, it’s time for another inspiring edition of Great Quotes. 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:

• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
• After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. – Cato the Elder
• Give a man a fish and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish and you’re a consultant. – Scott Adams
• Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home. – David Frost
• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. – Marston Bates
• Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you’ll have to ram it down their throats.” – Howard Aiken
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. – Robert Frost
• A thick skin is a gift from God. – Konrad Adenauer
• Doubt will take you out of activity, but activity will take you out of doubt. – Presley Swaggerty
• The trouble with trying to make yourself stupider is that you very often succeed. – C. S. Lewis
• An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. – John Buchan
• No is just yes with a different coat on. – Robert Hruzek
• There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. – Anatole Broyard
• A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. – Bertrand Russell
• We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. – George Eliot
• Don’t worry if a man kicks you from behind; it only proves you’re ahead of him. – W.C. Fields
• The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. – William Gibson
• To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. – Jack Handy
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. – Cyril Connolly
• The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay

And finally, to wrap things up this month (in honor of it being NaNoWriMo month and all) here’s a little something for all the budding novelists out there:

• I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. – Lord Brabazon

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Well, it’s the end of another month, and you know what that means, right? Yep, it’s time for another inspiring edition of Great Quotes. 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!

I think you’ll agree they may even impart a bit of wisdom – along with a bit of fun. Check these out:

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in coveralls and looks like work. – Thomas A. Edison
• Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. – George Christoph Lichtenberg
• Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost
• All the world’s a stage, and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. – Sean O’Casey
• Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled “This could change your life.” – Helen Exley
• ‘Who are you, and how did you get in here?’ ‘I’m a locksmith. And, I’m a locksmith.’ – Leslie Nielsen
• When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. – Rodney Dangerfield
• It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than coming up it. – Henry Allen
• None but a coward boasts that he has never known fear. – Ferdinand Foch
• The real hero is a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. – Umberto Eco
• A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. – Unknown
• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G. K. Chesterton
• If you live to be a hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age. – George Burns
• Age is… wisdom, if a man has lived his life properly. – Miriam Makeba
• History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. – Clarence Darrow
• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Emerson
• I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. – Leo Rosten
• The greatest lesson we can learn from the past… is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. – Frederick Cheluba
• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you might was well make it dance. – George Bernard Shaw
• As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. – Peter Benchley
• When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. – John Ruskin

And speaking of wrapping things up this month, here’s one last thought to ponder:

• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. – James F. Byrnes

Would you agree or disagree? Why or why not?

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