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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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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!

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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!

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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

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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.

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Welcome, my friends, to another enlightening edition of Great Quotes, a monthly compendium of, well, great quotes collected from all over. They caught my eye and tickled my fancy, and 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:

• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. – Walt Kelly
• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana
• How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas
• It is easier to fight for one’s principles than live up to them. – Alfred Adler
• Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Barry LaPatner
• Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. – Cullen Hightower

• In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. – Paul Harvey
• No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought it viscous. – Henry Adams
• Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. – Alfred Hitchcock
• We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. – John W. Gardner
• The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden

• Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering. – R. Buckminster Fuller
• What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. – Paul Valery
• A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. – Thomas Mann
• If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you make them think, they’ll hate you. – Don Marquis
• We all have the strength to endure the misfortunes of others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. – John Lehman



• It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear. – Dick Cavett
• We hate some people because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. – Charles Caleb Colton
• I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. – Robert Bloch
• Proofread carefully to see if you any words out. – Unknown
• Nothing says, ‘I have no idea what to get you,’ like giant beige bath towels. – Missbhavens
• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. – Henry Kissinger
• We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. – Werner von Braun

And finally, here’s a little something from Mickey’s dad:

• It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. – Walt Disney

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Welcome, my friends, to another edition of Great Quotes, a monthly compendium of, well, great quotes collected from all over. They caught my eye and tickled my fancy, and 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:

• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut
• Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. – Mark Twain
• An author is a fool who, not satisfied with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. – Charles de Montesquieu
• A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. – Baltasar Gracian
• Everyone is as God made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. – Miguel de Cervantes



• Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. – Joe Theismann
• Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is completely programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. – Isaac Asimov
• You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain
• It is a dangerous business, going out your front door. – J. R. R. Tolkien
• The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. – Fran Lebowitz



• Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others. – Groucho Marx
• It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. – Aristotle
• If all else fails, immortality can always be assured through spectacular error. – John Kenneth Galbraith
• Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering she looks like a haddock. – John Barrymore
• Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. – Benjamin Franklin



• I got kicked out of ballet class because of a pulled groin muscle. It wasn’t mine. – Rita Rudner
• Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards. – Sören Kierkegaard
• If all the girls who attend the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. – Dorothy Parker
• I despise the pleasure of pleasing people I despise. – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. – Augusten Burroughs



• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. – Miss Piggy
• It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at the goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. – Arnold Toynbee
• The big thieves hang the little ones. – Czech proverb
• 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

And, to round out this month’s edition, I give you the definitive guide on “the way things should be”, from Gore Vidal:

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