A Collection of Favorite Quotes

1. No one is a failure until they fail to try - Jill Wolf
2. You do not have a Soul. You are a soul. You have a body. - C.S. Lewis
3. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. - C.S. Lewis
4. Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. – Mark Twain
5. Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver. – Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman
6. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least. – Unknown
7. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. – A. A. Milne
8. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. —Virgil Garnett Thomson
9. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. —Oscar Wilde
10. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. —Kurt Vonnegut
11. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. —Robert Wilensky
12. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? —Scott Adams
13. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. —Cullen Hightower
14. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking. —Albert Einstein
15. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously. —Charles F. Kettering
16. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. —Christopher Hampton
17. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. —Ellen Goodman
18. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. -Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)
19. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. – Shakespeare
20. Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. – Eleanor Roosevelt
21. Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C.S. Lewis
22. A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. – G.K. Chesterton
23. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost
24. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Emelia Earhart
25. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain