QOTD - Rev. Sydney Smith

“It is the greatest of all mistakes, to do nothing because you can only do little.” – Reverend Sydney Smith, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1850)

QOTD - Mark Twain

“Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed.” – Mark Twain

~ I'll admit, this quote is very similar to one I posted a few weeks ago. I adore Mark Twain, so I couldn't resist.

QOTD - Erma Bombeck

Erma Bombeck began I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression with these remarks:

Before you read this book, there are a few things you should know about me. 

I consider ironed sheets a health hazard.

Children should be judged on what they are—a punishment for an early marriage.

There is no virtue in waxing your driveway.

Husbands are married for better or worse—but not for lunch.

Renaissance women were beautiful and never heard of Weight Watchers.

Mothers-in-law who wear a black armband to the wedding are expendable.

Missing a nap gives you bad skin.

Men who have a thirty-six-televised-football-games-a-week-habit should be declared legally dead and their estates probated.

The lady was a legend <3

QOTD - Gerald J. Jampolsky, M.D.

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.” – Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., Love Is Letting Go of Fear (1979)

QOTD - J. C. R. Licklider

“People tend to overestimate what can be done in one year and to underestimate what can be done in five or ten years.” – J. C. R. Licklider, Libraries of the Future (1965)

QOTD - Alfred Crowquill

“Do not allow Idleness to deceive you, for while you give him to-day he steals to-morrow from you.” – Alfred Crowquill (Alfred Henry Forrester), 'The Dwarf and the Woodcutter', Tales of Magic and Meaning (1856)

QOTD - Mother Jones

 “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!” – Mother Jones

QOTD - Christopher Reeve

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” – Christopher Reeve

QOTD - Dale Carnegie

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie, Dale Carnegie’s Scrapbook: A Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages (1959)

QOTD - John Buchan

 

“It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.” – John Buchan, Mr. Standfast (1919)

QOTD - W. W. Ziege

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – W. W. Ziege

QOTD - Sydney J. Harris

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it; when you get the time, you are generally too exhausted to enjoy it.” – Sydney J. Harris, “Strictly Personal: You’re Too Busy?, Time To Relax”, Chicago Daily News (October 26, 1954)

QOTD - Mark Twain

“If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there.” – Mark Twain

QOTD - George V. Higgins

 

“This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” – George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1971)

QOTD - Leo Tolstoy

“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

QOTD - John Updike

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price.” — John Updike, Rabbit, Run

QOTD - P. L. Travers

“The same substance composes us — the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star — we are all one, all moving to the same end.” ― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins

QOTD - Jane Austen

 “I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” — Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

QOTD - J. R. R. Tolkien

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

QOTD - Ernest Hemingway

“‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

QOTD - J. M. Barrie

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” — J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

QOTD - Tennessee Williams

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

QOTD - Alexandre Dumas

“All human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope.’” — Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

QOTD - Virginia Woolf

 “What does the brain matter compared with the heart?” — Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

QOTD - J.B. Priestley

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” – J.B. Priestley

QOTD - Frank Outlaw

 

“Watch your thoughts, they become words;
watch your words, they become actions;
watch your actions, they become habits;
watch your habits, they become character;
watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

FRANK OUTLAW
Late President of the Bi-Lo Stores

As printed in "What They're Saying", San Antonio Light (May 18, 1977)

QOTD - Walter Winchell

 

“Some men use statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts. For support rather than illumination.” - Walter Winchell, Daytona Beach Morning Journal (November 16, 1948)

QOTD - Thomas Dreier

 “You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.” – Thomas Dreier

QOTD - Cicero

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero

QOTD - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Man’s mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

QOTD - Poor Richard’s Almanac

“Be at War with your Vices, at Peace with your Neighbours, and let every New-Year find you a better Man.” - Poor Richard’s Almanac (1755)