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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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