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Alright, I admit it: this is a “throw-down” post! I have been unusually busy for the last two weeks, and the trend continues today. So I said to myself, “Self, instead of your usual feeble attempt at pontificating on life, the universe and everything, why not let others do the work for you?”

Now, since I’m such an agreeable fellow, I agreed with myself this was a rather good idea! Hence this month’s edition of Great Quotes! So if you’re looking for inspiration, something to make you think, or perhaps even a good chuckle or two, then by all means, check these out:

• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. – Fran Lebowitz
• Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. – Frank Dane
• Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. – Philip K. Dick
• The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘tics’, meaning ‘blood-sucking parasites’. – Larry Hardiman
• How my achievements mock me! – William Shakespeare
• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. – G. K. Chesterton
• Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. – Louise Beal
• A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. – John Gaule
• The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. – Norman Brenner
• You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. – Stanislaw J. Lec
• If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. – Donald Rumsfeld
• When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. – Benjamin Disraeli
• The average man, who doesn’t know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France
• Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. – Soren Kierkegaard
• You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. – Will Rogers
• Every ass likes to hear himself bray. – English proverb
• Someday we’ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. – Evan Davis
• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Will Rogers
• On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. – Peter Steiner
• There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you all about it? – Kin Hubbard
• Never answer a critic, unless he’s right. – Bernard M. Baruch
• Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. – Philip K. Dick
• We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. – Aneurin Bevin

And finally, since this is tax season, here’s something particularly appropriate:

• There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. – Benjamin Franklin

Ouch!

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