It has been a while since I posted one of these. I was adding some quotes recently and realized that I have a quote in here from the recently deceased Kurt Vonnegut. (As a bonus, it sort of ties in to global warming too….) There are many authors that I enjoy reading. There are a few that also inspire me to write. Vonnegut is one of those.

Some of these quotes are unattributed. I simply don’t recall where I got them. Or I made them up, but I’m not certain enough of their originality to claim them as my own…. In any case, at least one of these may give you something to THINK about.

I march to a different accordion.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. ~ Emile Chartier

I made a mistake once. I thought I was wrong about something, but it turns out I was mistaken.

I had a thought once. It died of loneliness.

Wanna know what my first thought was this morning? I’ll let you know when I have one….

What we think, we become. ~ Buddha

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. ~ Nietzche

I tawt I taw a puddy tat. ~ Tweety

Information isn’t wisdom. Information isn’t learning. If information were learning, you could be educated by memorizing the world almanac. If you did that, you wouldn’t be educated. You’d be weird ~ David McCullough

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. ~ Charlie Chaplin

You’ll never find rainbows if you’re looking down. ~ Charlie Chaplin

I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician. ~ Charlie Chaplin

Man’s greatest tragedy is that he can conceive of a perfection which he cannot attain. ~ Jerome McGann

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray

Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are to stop glaciers. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky. ~ Sharon Olds

You haven’t achieved equality until you’re a legitimate target for humor. ~ Scott Adams

There have never in history been so many opportunities to do so many things that aren’t worth doing. ~ William Gaddis

I overdid everything as a matter of course. ~ Henri Matisse

The previous parts of this series are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. (If you’re keeping track, there are 290 quotes in rotation now and I’ve posted 240 of them in these entries.)

Posted by Tim