I often hear, or read a quote that grabs my attention. Some are witty, some prophetic, and some reflect the challenges in life. Regardless, I’d like to share one each week. Enjoy!
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future–John F. Kennedy
It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction–Herman Siu
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in–Greek proverb
Lust is more abstract than logic; it seeks (hope triumphing over experience) for some purely sexual, hence purely imaginary, conjunction of an impossible maleness with an impossible femaleness–C.S. Lewis
Perfection never exists in reality but only in our dreams and, if we are foolish enough to think so, in the past. But the notion of perfection is very real and has tremendous power in disparaging whatever is actually at hand–Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs
Vacations, no matter how long they last, always seem too short–Jean Gautier
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what, then is an empty desk a sign(of)?–Albert Einstein
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed–Ernest Hemingway
There are several good protections against temptations but the surest is cowardice–Mark Twain
The art of our time is noisy with appeals to silence–Susan Sontag
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery–Winston Churchill
The choice between life and death is ever-recurrent. In varying forms it appears whenever a new adaptation is needed or a new potential is ready to be born–Frances G. Wickes
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young–Oscar Wilde
There are three hard and fast rules to writing. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are–W. Somerset Maugham
A writer is a world trapped inside a person–Victor Hugo
Literary criticism is constantly attempting a very absurd thing–the explanation of (a) passionate utterance by (an) utterance that is unimpassioned: it is like trying to paint a sunset in lamp black–John Davidson
Anybody who thinks that war is pleasant…you know, the old veteran stuff. You know, “War is great stuff.” Well, it’s great for the survivors–not great for the people who are killed in it–Bernard B. Fall
(P.S. Though I respect Mr. Fall’s view, the aftermath of war isn’t always so great for many of the survivors either. I salute you all–GRM)
If there is anything that a man can do and do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance–Abraham Lincoln
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say–F. Scott Fitzgerald
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them–Kahlil Gibran
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down…. If it is a good book, nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him–Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you tell the truth (about everything), you won’t have to remember anything–Mark Twain
The Sabbath is what you make of it–a holy day, a rest day, a sports day–or, if you’re not smart, another work day–Herbert L. Goldstein
We do the best we can and hope for the best, knowing that “the best,” so far as selling goes, is a matter of chance. The only thing that is not chance is what one asks of oneself and how well or how badly one meets one’s own standards–May Sarton
The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is–Saint Aldred of Rievaulx
The habit of courtesy, when once acquired, is almost impossible to get rid of–Robert Lynd
Unlike the architect, an author often discards his blueprint in the process of erecting his edifice. To the writer, a book is something to be lived through, an experience, not a plan to be executed in accordance with laws and specifications–Henry Miller
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles in the cold–Andre Maurois
You know your day is going to be a challenge when you start it by dropping your mascara wand in the toilet–RA Miller
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read– Groucho Marx
We may all have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now–Dr. Martin Luther King
