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