I love great quotations. In fact I have dozens on a separate page on my website and add more regularly. There is NO end to the wisdom that comes from the mouths of famous, infamous and not-at-all famous alike.
Here are some of my favourite "Funny, but oh so true" quotes:
"Don't put eggs under dead chickens." -- Howard Hendricks
"God so loved the world - that he didn't send a committee!" -- Unknown
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -- Catherine Aird
"Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class." -- Choi, Hong Hi, Founder of Taekwon-Do
"Statistics are wonderful things. If you torture them long enough, they'll tell you anything you want to hear." -- Unknown
"Try Not . . . DO or DO NOT . . . There is no try . . . " -- Yoda
"Learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself." -- Unknown
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' `That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. `I don't much care where--' said Alice. `Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. `--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. `Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough." -- Lewis Carroll
"Life is something that everyone should try at least once." Henry J. Tilman
"Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway." -- Mary Kay Ash
"There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" -- Carrie Fisher
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." -- Beverly Sills
"In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king." -- Unknown
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things." -- Katharine Graham
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." --Sally Kempton
"Don't be humble. You're not that great." -- Golda Meir
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." -- Howard W. Newton
"Those who live by the sword are usually shot by those who don't." -- Unknown
"I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee." -- G. K. Chesterton
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today." -- Chinese Proverb
"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." -- Unknown
"Criticism is something you can avoid easily - by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing." --Aristotle
What are your "favs"?
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