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Well, my friends, it’s a Friday, and nearly the end of a month that ends in a “Y”, so what the heck, it seems like a great time for another thrilling edition of Great Quotes!

So if you find yourself running on empty and searching for some encouragement, inspiration or perhaps even just a chuckle or two, you’ve come to the right place! Check these out:

• The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it with deliberately with faulty arguments. – Friedrich Nietzsche
• There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. – James Thurber
• The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. – Albert Einstein
• Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. – Daphne du Maurier
• Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – Lewis Carroll
• If it’s true we are here to help others, what are the others doing here? – unknown
• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. – Jeff Valdez
• If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton



• A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t. – Unknown
• If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. – Mark Twain
• Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know it’s not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. – Robert Orben
• I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. – Stanislaw J. Lec
• Why is it our memories are good enough to remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? – Francois de la Rouchefoucauld



• To be great is to be misunderstood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If you call yourself a writer because you are a blogger, then live up to the expectations of your readers. More so if you make money off them. – Stellify
• When you are looking for an excuse, any excuse will do. – Chris Cree
• That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. – William J. H. Boetcker
• I think age is a high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard
• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey



• I knew this was going to happen, but not so soon. – a tombstone’s epitaph in Boot Hill cemetery, Arizona
• Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. – Heinrich Heine
• A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. – Ring Lardner
• You don’t stop laughing when you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. – Michael Pritchard
• Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. – Lawrence J. Peter
• A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

And, to round out this month’s edition, I’d like to extend my profound sympathies to Richard on his, er, loss:

• I have a rock garden. Last week, three of them died. – Richard Diran

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