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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

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