A few months ago I posted a piece containing a collection of snippets of all sorts. Quotations, observations, poetry, and doggerel that caught my attention over the last 50 years or so. The reaction of those who read the piece was surprisingly positive…some even asking for more. So here it is. The results of a second sweep of the corners of my curious mind.

“Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.” Andy Rooney

“If you do’t think you can do it, I will find someone who can.” H. Ross Perot (I heard this one in person)

The young have aspirations

That never come to pass.

The old have reminiscences

Of what never happened.

H.H. Munro

“True Wealth: $1.00 more than my wife’s sister’s husband” Anon

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” Hellen Keller

“Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way” Infantry School Motto via Thomas Paine and General George Patton

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens

“To me, old age is 15 years older than i am.” Bernard Baruch

“Even kings wind up as dust in the desert.” Shelly

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” Emily Dickinson

“When good men die, their goodness does not perish, but lives through them though they are gone, As for the bad, and all that was theirs dies and is buried with them.” Euripides

“To those I have wronged, I ask forgiveness

To those I may have helped, I wish I had done more

To those I neglected to help, I ask for understanding

To those who have helped me, I sincerely thank you.”  Anon

“I Yam what I Yam.” Popeye

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill

“The art of writing is discovering what you believe.” Gustave Flaubert

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” T.H. Huxley

“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life…to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of last parting.” George Eliiot (She pretty well describes the perfect long term relationship)

“And so it is in politics; each for himself alone. There is no other.” Geoffrey Chaucer

“I have come to value the liberated mind as the supreme good on earth.” J. Frank Dobie

“Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.” T.H. Huxley

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods

There is rapture on the lonely shore

There is society where none intrudes

By the deep sea and music in the roar

I love not man the less, but nature more”

Lord Byron

“It aint what you don’t know that gets you in trouble, it’s what you know for sure but just isn’t so.” Mark Twain

“Tourists don’t know where they’re been; and travelers don’t know where they’re going.” Paul Theroux

“When the shooting starts, climb on your camel and head for the hills.” Bedouin Proverb

“A generalist is one who knows less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything; whereas, a specialist knows more and more about less and less until; he knows everything about nothing. Anon

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see.” John Burroughs (John died at age 84 and it is thought that he wrote this just before his death. I agree with John, moreso, each day that passes,)

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