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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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