Howdy, y’all!

Hey, I’m not going to apologize for not writin’ so much lately. I mean, you’re not supposed to do that, right? After all, your friends don’t mind when you’re occupied with, y’know, the other stuff that sometimes just has to be done.

Still… I miss you guys! So lemme just leave you with a quick thought for the day:

The road to victory

looks a lot like

the road to defeat.

It’s just a mite longer.

I’ll be back real soon now, y’hear?

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Guest post by Tony Cradic who writes over at Tony C Today

September: 700 Billion? That’s All You Need. No Problem… Troubled financial institutes look for my hidden money-sock.

October: More stimulus rebate checks? My poor great, great grandchildren… literally Can our great grandchild afford our spending habits?

November: If ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ were candy and nuts America has spoken and now he’s our President.

December: We’re number 1… wait… you’re number 1… wait… Talking the talk is just the beginning. I need to start walking too.

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My name is Tony Cradic, and I’ve been blogging since this past September. I love God, my family and my country as much as humanly possible.  I’ve traveled a lot of the world, but Tennessee is again my home.

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Guest post by Danny Brown who writes over at Danny Brown

October: Taking Social Media Into The Real World

Social media allows us to interact in a way never before seen. The Internet is truly a small world for anyone taking part. Surely real life should be the same?

November: Social Media Is A Language Of Its Own

For anyone who gets social media, it’s all too easy to see it as the best thing since Web 2.0 started. But what about the ordinary web users who don’t see what all the fuss is about?

December: Why 2009 Is Going To Be Your Year

Greatness is all around us, despite life often trying to hold us back. All we need is the encouragement and support of others. How will you offer greatness?

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Danny Brown is the owner of Press Release PR, a boutique agency specializing in search engine optimized press releases and social media PR, and the founder of the 12for12k Challenge.

He has guest authored at leading web and search marketing site Web Analytics World and is a blog partner of the WebProNews and iEntry business networks.

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Howdy, y’all! It’s the end of the month once again, and as you may or may not know, that means it time for 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:

• We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are. – Anais Nin
• I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. – Bethania McKenstry
• If we did all of the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison
• What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens. – Benjamin Disraeli
• Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. – David Letterman
• The computer is a moron. – Peter Drucker
• The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke
• Tell me your friends, and I’ll tell you who you are. – Assyrian Proverb
• The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them. – Sir William Bragg
• To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. – Robert Copeland
• I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. – G.K. Chesterton
• The next time you make an assumption, see what happens when you do the opposite. – Brian Clark
• People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. – David H. Comins
• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. – Douglas Adams

And just for fun, I’d like to dedicate this last one to all the dreamers in the audience:

• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. – Daniel Burnham

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Just a quickie for today, friends…

Isn’t it funny how some days things just seem to “click”? And then, of course, there’s days where nothin’ seems to go right. We’ve all been there, don’cha know.

A good friend of mine, Jerry Arledge used to put it this way:

“Some days, chickens; some days, feathers.”

But what is it that determines just what kind of a day it’s going to be for you? How do you know what kind of a day you’re going to have?

I’d like to submit to you that for the most part, it’s up to you!

Over at 100 Bloggers, the topic this month is “favorite quotes”. Do yourself a favor and go check ‘em out.

In the meantime, I ran across one yesterday that is so wonderful, so incredibly outrageous, I just had to put it here for all my friends to benefit from.

Are ya ready? Here it is:

“Without my morning coffee, I’m like a piece of dried up roast goat.”

Wanna know who said it?

None other than Johan Sebastian Bach!

Welcome, my friends, to another enlightening edition of Great Quotes, a monthly compendium of, well, great quotes collected from all over. It’s my way of celebrating the end of another exciting month here at the Zone.

Hey, who knows? Maybe they’ll even provide some inspiration for the next one! 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:

• Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. – Ken Hakuta
• The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. – Paul Fix
• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn’t like it. – Samuel Goldwyn
• If at first you don’t succeed… then skydiving is not for you! – Unknown
• Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff. – Frank Zappa
• It is always the best policy to speak the truth – unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. – Jerome K. Jerome
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Sir Francis Bacon
• When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. – Anatole France
• Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. – Gertrude Stein
• It’s easier to belch baloney than bring home the bacon. – John Maxwell
• Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing. – William S. Burroughs
• The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” – Ronald Reagan
• The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from people who are still undecided. – Casey Stengel
• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made. – Jean Giraudoux
• When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. – Eric Hoffer
• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. – Thomas H. Huxley
• Preparation is the difference between and adventure and an ordeal. – Kirk Newsome
• Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘brightness’ but it doesn’t work. – Gallagher
• One never notices what has been done; one can only notice what remains to be done. – Marie Curie

And finally, for every writer’s edification, this pearl of wisdom from one of the most widely-broadcast newsmen ever:

• Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you’re wiser than when it just reached to the end of the bar. – Edward R. Murrow

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.