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Looking for inspiration? Something to provoke a thought or two? Just need a giggle? Try this potporri of quotes from the famous, infamous, and not so famous…

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.” – Bertrand Russell

“No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.” – Fran Lebowitz

“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

“I like rice. Rice is great if you are hungry and want 2000 of something.” – Mitch Hedberg

“The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.” – Franklin P. Jones

“At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.” – P. G. Wodehouse

“If you put a good person in a bad process, the process always wins.” – Chuck Knight

“It matters not whether you win or lose; it matters whether I win or lose.” – Darren Weinberg

“The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.” – Chuck Templar

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather

“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.” – Wendell Johnson

“Either I’ve been missing something or nothing has been going on.” – Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” – John Kenneth Gailbraith

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.” – Woodrow Wilson

“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.” – Aldous Huxley

“Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“They always talk who never think.” – Matthew Prior

“The difference between stupidity and genius is stupidity has no limits.” – Albert Einstein

“Inspiration isn’t in what you look at, it’s in how you look.” – Russell Davies

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” – Ronald Reagan

“The difference between a violin and a viola is a viola burns longer.” – Victor Borge

“The point of living and being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.” – Peter Ustinov

“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest way to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” – SunTzu

“A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.” – Jean Paul Richter

“I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.” – Robert Orben
“When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.” – Paul Brown

“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.” – Ralph Charrell

And, in what has to be filed under “best advice ever” we have this from those venerable ancient Chinese:

“Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet.” – Chinese proverb

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