Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
- David Starr Jordan
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed) 
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
Get a Funny Quote of the Day each day by email or in your feed reader.
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
- Anonymous
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak and remove all doubt.
- sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, or Samuel Johnson
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation
and go to the grave with the song still in them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
What would be the use of immortality to a person
who cannot use well a half an hour.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
The more he became truly wise,
the more he distrusted everything he knew.
- Voltaire
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
- Charles M. Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon
Children, cartoon animals, comedians,
and space aliens can get away with saying
what the rest of us are afraid is true,
but are embarrassed to talk about.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
Everybody is a genius.
But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
- Albert Einstein
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A well-developed sense of humor
is the pole that adds balance to your steps,
as you walk the tightrope of life.
- William Arthur Ward
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Honor tradition AND question tradition.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thank you for visiting: Wisdom is knowing what to do next. ... by David Starr Jordan.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search my large collection of Funny Quotes.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.