21 thought-provoking quotes about fake friends

03/30/2025 by

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore some quotes about fake friends.

How often do you hear people say, “Oh, I have many friends?“

For a very lucky few, that may be true. However, most of the time, it’s not true at all.

Almost always, real friends can be counted on the fingers of one hand with some fingers to spare.

For me, a real friend is someone I could phone at 2 am if I was in serious trouble and be confident that they’d be straight out to help me in a heartbeat.

Everyone else is just people I know with varying degrees of familiarity.

Yes, there is a broader circle of people with whom I socialise occasionally but my close friends are those I know I can count on when the chips are down.

Many people we know tend to be ‘fair-weather friends‘ and some of them will be genuinely fake. There when it suits them but otherwise they care little for us.

So, when it comes to friends, we have to learn to differentiate the real from the not-so-real. A real friend will enter your life just as the rest of the world is leaving.

Here are 21 thought-provoking quotes about fake friends to help you with that process.

Quotes about fake friends (1-10)

You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. ~Joan Jett

A fake friend is an enemy in disguise. ~Ellen J. Barrier 

Better an honest enemy than a false friend. ~German Proverb

I didn’t lose a friend; I just realized I never had one. ~Author Unknown

Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise.  ~Genereux Philip

True friends cry when you leave. Fake friends leave when you cry. ~Author Unknown

Pay close attention to the people who don’t clap when you win. ~Author Unknown

Growing up means realizing a lot of your friends aren’t really your friends. ~Author Unknown

Fake friends: once they stop talking to you, they start talking about you. ~Author Unknown

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. ~Author Unknown

Quotes about fake friends (11-21)

Sometimes it’s not the people who change it’s the mask that falls off. ~Author Unknown

True friends will always find a way to help you. Fake friends will always find an excuse. ~Author Unknown

You never lose friends. Real ones will always stay, no matter what and the fakes, you don’t need them anyway. ~Drishti Bablani

As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have a ton of friends and more important to have real ones. ~Author Unknown

The same person that speaks highly of you will be the same person that downs you. Be careful who you call friends. ~Author Unknown

You don’t lose friends because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends and you’re better for it. ~Mandy Hale

A true friend cares about what’s going on in your life. A fake friend will make their problems sound bigger. Be a true friend. ~Author Unknown

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ~Buddha

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. ~Richard Burton

I’ve got more respect for someone who comes out and says they don’t like me than for the ones who act like they do but talk bad about me when I’m not around. ~Mitchell Perry

Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn’t mean they’re your friends. People pretend well. Real situations expose fake people. So pay attention. ~Author Unknown

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30 witty quotes that’ll make anyone smile

03/29/2025 by

Blog posts that include something to make readers smile always get a good response. Witty quotes always get the best response.

So here are 30 razor-sharp witty quotes. I am sure at least a few of them will brighten your day.

This is a collection of witty quotes in response to readers’ requests for a little levity to break up the otherwise gloomy news that seems to have dominated our lives this year.

So go on have a laugh right now and enjoy them all.

Witty Quotes (1-10)

I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it. ~Mae West

When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’. ~Groucho Marx

Never put off till tomorrow what may be done the day after tomorrow just as well. ~Mark Twain

Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ~Robert A. Heinlein

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. ~Oscar Wilde

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ~W.C. Fields

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. ~Winston S. Churchill

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~George Burns

Two wrongs don’t make a right but they do make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. ~A.A. Milne

Witty Quotes (11-20)

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? ~Laurence J. Peter

If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. ~W.C. Fields

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away. ~Paul Terry

When you’re courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity. ~Albert Einstein

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? ~George Carlin

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. ~Yogi Berra

I need six months’ vacation, twice a year. ~Author Unknown

I do all my own stunts but never intentionally. ~Author Unknown

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? ~Robin Williams

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ~Author Unknown

Witty Quotes (21-30)

Hard work never killed anyone but why take a chance? ~Edgar Bergen

I’d like to live like a poor man, only with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso

No man goes before his time, unless the boss leaves early. ~Groucho Marx

Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you’re a cheese. ~Luis Buñuel

The man who says his wife can’t take a joke forgets she took him. ~Oscar Wilde

I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. ~W.C. Fields

To err is human; to blame it on someone else shows management potential. ~Author Unknown

Always borrow money from a pessimist. They’ll never expect it back. ~Author Unknown

If you’re not supposed to eat at night, why is there a light in the refrigerator? ~Author Unknown

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island, what book I would take with me? …. “How to Build a Boat” would be the answer. ~Author Unknown

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15 classic quotes by Yogi Berra that’ll make you think

03/29/2025 by

Yogi Berra was a man with a memorable turn of phrase and a unique way of making a point. Today, I offer you 15 quotes by Yogi Berra to illustrate my point.

Born Lorenzo Pietro Berra to Italian immigrants, Yogi Berra was an American professional baseball player.

He was a catcher who later took on the roles of manager and coach.

He played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball, all but the last for the New York Yankees.

If you’re looking for memorable quotes to use in a presentation, Yogi Berra’s quotes would be an excellent choice, I think.

They always nail an underlying point while being concise and memorable.

Read on and see if you agree with me.

Quotes by Yogi Berra:

  1. It ain’t over till it’s over. ~Yogi Berra
  2. A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. ~Yogi Berra
  3. You can observe a lot by watching. ~Yogi Berra
  4. The future ain’t what it used to be. ~Yogi Berra
  5. It’s like deja-vu, all over again. ~Yogi Berra
  6. When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. ~Yogi Berra
  7. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you. ~Yogi Berra
  8. If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be. ~Yogi Berra
  9. Even Napoleon had his Watergate. ~Yogi Berra
  10. There are some people who, if they don’t already know, you can’t tell ’em. ~Yogi Berra
  11. If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. ~Yogi Berra
  12. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. ~Yogi Berra
  13. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. ~Yogi Berra
  14. I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. ~Yogi Berra
  15. I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better. ~Yogi Berra

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50 insurance quotes you just can’t ignore

03/29/2025 by

If you’re looking for insurance quotes today, you may or may not have come to the right place.

If your aim is to purchase insurance, then I must apologise. I’m not in the business of selling insurance.

However, I am in the business of exploring different subjects and then curating interesting quotes by fascinating people who have something to say on that subject.

Today I thought it would be interesting to explore the subject of insurance and see what people had to say about it.

Essentially, insurance is the transfer of risk. The bigger the risk, the more we need to ensure we’re covered against it if we’re not to end up penniless or worse.

So here are 50 insurance quotes by people who have something interesting, and occasionally amusing, to say about the subject.

I hope you find them as interesting as I did.

If that’s the case, please feel free to pass them on.

Insurance Quotes (1-10):

  1. Health insurance should be a given for every citizen. ~Jesse Ventura
  2. Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. ~Ronald Reagan
  3. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? ~Woody Allen
  4. Everyone should have health insurance. I say everyone should have health care. I’m not selling insurance. ~Dennis Kucinich
  5. Even if I might say to myself, ‘I don’t need health insurance. I won’t get sick,’ the fact is, as human beings with mortality, we are going to get sick, and it’s unpredictable when. ~Neal Katyal
  6. Your FICO score is an “I love debt” score. You’re going to pay a bazillion dollars in interest to keep your FICO score up in order to have lower homeowners and car insurance rates. ~Dave Ramsey
  7. Without health insurance, getting sick or injured could mean going bankrupt, going without needed care, or even dying needlessly. ~Jan Schakowsky
  8. For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ~Ralph Nader
  9. As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time. ~Magic Johnson
  10. My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn’t trust life insurance salesmen. ~Sylvia Plath 

Insurance Quotes (11-20):

  1. Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. ~P. J. O’Rourke
  2. It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. ~Elizabeth Warren
  3. If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance. ~Suze Orman
  4. I don’t want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. ~Jack Benny
  5. Lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies. ~Thomas Sowell
  6. Insurance – an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ~Ambrose Bierce
  7. Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don’t know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics. ~Jesse Jackson
  8. People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel. ~Daniel Kahneman
  9. The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. ~Alan Coren
  10. Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. ~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Insurance Quotes (21-30):

  1. Health care’s not about insurance! Health care’s about getting treatment. ~P. J. O’Rourke
  2. You never fully appreciate the value of an insurance policy until the day you need it. ~Roy Sutton
  3. Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk. ~Charles Duhigg
  4. Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance. ~Ernst Zundel
  5. It’s very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted. ~Daniel Kahneman
  6. Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. ~William Penn
  7. The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it’s always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance. ~Suze Orman
  8. Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families. ~James Surowiecki
  9. I am fighting kidney cancer. And I’m just so grateful that I had health insurance so that I could concentrate on the care that I needed rather than how the heck I was going to afford the care that was going to probably save my life. ~Mazie Hirono
  10. When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them. ~Angus Deaton

Insurance Quotes (31-40):

  1. Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance. ~Corrine Brown
  2. I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance. ~Derek Kilmer
  3. The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals. ~Lawrence Summers
  4. Even when I was a teen model, I didn’t think it was fair that I had to enter the acting world to get insurance. ~Tyra Banks
  5. Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. ~Elizabeth Warren
  6. I’ve never been able to sky-dive, and I’ve always wanted to. I’ve probably done everything else, but for some reason, the insurance company won’t let me do it. ~Nick Cannon
  7. What the insurance companies have done is reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. ~Gerry Spence
  8. The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates. ~Mary Landrieu
  9. For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance. ~Ben Nelson
  10. It puts the provider in a situation of looking for ways to have someone else pick up a piece of the cost. As a result, every customer who has insurance ends up paying a ‘hidden premium.’ It simply adds to the healthcare cost burden. ~Dave Obey

Insurance Quotes (41-50):

  1. Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed. ~Don Rickles
  2. One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that’s a truly staggering figure. ~John M. McHugh
  3. Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others. ~Patrick J. Kennedy
  4. If it’s really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick. ~Eric Braeden
  5. The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They’ve lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. ~Ron Chernow
  6. The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there’s no check-off box for you, you don’t exist. ~Jack Anderson
  7. Most illegals are without health insurance, and when these workers need emergency healthcare, the American taxpayer gets stuck with the bill. ~Spencer Bachus
  8. Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation’s healthcare delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels. ~Jim Ryun
  9. Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit healthcare inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. ~John Conyers
  10. The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market. ~Gary Miller

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27 Quotes by Jane Austen that are thought-provoking

03/29/2025 by

Today I thought exploring some quotes by Jane Austen would be interesting.

As I’m sure many readers will know, Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Austen’s work explored women’s dependence on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.

Austen’s use of biting irony, realism, and social commentary has earned her acclaim among critics and scholars.

For her time, she was a successful woman, and it’s always worth listening to successful people.

So, dear reader, be inspired by these excellent quotes by Jane Austen and see how many of them still resonate with us all today.

Quotes by Jane Austen (1-9)

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Quotes by Jane Austen (10-18)

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know because there is no hope of a cure.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

Quotes by Jane Austen (19-27)

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favour of matrimony.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual in that family may be.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly: I do not like to have people throw themselves away, but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

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15 Quotes by Aristotle that will inspire you

03/27/2025 by

Today I am exploring some quotes by Aristotle.

Do you have your own personal philosophy, dear reader? Perhaps you have a sense of what’s important to you and what isn’t.

Maybe you have a set of values by which you live your life. Then again, perhaps this is something on which you continue to reflect.

That’s fine. However, if that is the case, I believe listening to the words of the great philosophers will help you.

There are many great philosophers, of course, but one man’s words worthy of your time would be those of Aristotle.

Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist believed to have been born around 384 BC.

I think the wisdom of the ancients offers us a lot in terms of the development of our own personal philosophy. All those quotes attributed to Aristotle provide us with much about which we can contemplate and reflect in relation to our own lives.

Here are 15 quotes by Aristotle to help you reflect and further develop your philosophy.

Quotes by Aristotle:

  1. Happiness depends upon ourselves. ~Aristotle
  2. Friendship is essentially a partnership. ~Aristotle
  3. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~Aristotle
  4. Quality is not an act, it’s a habit. ~Aristotle
  5. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. ~Aristotle
  6. There is no great genius without some touch of madness. ~Aristotle
  7. A friend to all is a friend to none. ~Aristotle
  8. Good habits formed in youth make all the difference. ~Aristotle
  9. Man is by nature a political animal. ~Aristotle
  10. The roots of education are bitter but the fruit is sweet. ~Aristotle
  11. He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ~Aristotle
  12. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
  13. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ~Aristotle
  14. At his best man is the noblest of all animals but separated from law and justice he is the worst. ~Aristotle
  15. The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control and outnumbers both of the other classes. ~Aristotle

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21 Quotes by John Lennon that’ll make you think

03/26/2025 by

Today I am exploring quotes by John Lennon.

John Lennon inspired a generation. Not only with his songs but with his wit and the philosophy that underpinned his life.

Above all, he was a thinker and communicator, and he was able to express his feelings and emotions in ways to which most people could relate, at least to some degree.

So, I offer you 21 quotes by John Lennon to illustrate the point being made here.

Whether you’re a fan of John Lennon or you’re just someone who enjoys a thought-provoking quote or two, you should find something here that will make you think. Most of all, you’ll find quotes that simply illustrate the genius that was John Lennon.

These are some of John Lennon’s greatest quotes, which will improve your mind and quite possibly improve your day too.

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Quotes by John Lennon (1-10):

  1. Art is only a way of expressing pain.
  2. Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
  3. The more I see the less I know for sure.
  4. I believe in everything until it’s disproved.
  5. Everything is as important as everything else.
  6. I don’t believe in killing, whatever the reason!
  7. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
  8. As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
  9. You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact.
  10. Everybody loves you when you’re six feet in the ground.

Quotes by John Lennon (11-21):

  1. Happiness is just how you feel when you don’t feel miserable.
  2. Yeah, we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
  3. What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive because without it we’ll sink.
  4. I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.
  5. Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.
  6. You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
  7. We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.
  8. When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
  9. My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
  10. Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
  11. We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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40 Quotes on New Beginnings: Embrace Change Positively

03/25/2025 by

Today I am exploring some quotes on new beginnings and the importance of embracing change positively.

If you’re embarking on a new chapter, dear reader, dive deep into the wisdom of the ages.

Whether you’re turning a fresh page in your personal story or seeking inspiration as you reshape your destiny, these timeless quotes on new beginnings can be your guiding light.

These are handpicked by your author from some of the great minds and thinkers from the modern era to antiquity.

Each quote provides a dose of encouragement that might just be the catalyst for your next big leap. So, read them all and arm yourself with the motivation you need to embrace change and seize the power of starting anew.

Enjoy them all and, please, feel free to pass them on.

QUOTES ON NEW BEGINNINGS

Quotes on New Beginnings (1-10):

  1. It is always good to make new friends. ~Jose Feliciano
  2. The thrill of life lies beyond your comfort zone. ~Joseph Crosby
  3. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. ~Seneca
  4. With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ~Albert Einstein
  6. If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ~John D. Rockefeller
  7. There’s a lot to be said for new beginnings. Going boldly in the direction of new adventures and taking that tiger for a ride. ~Lucius B. Wack
  8. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ~Walt Disney
  9. Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them. ~Stacy London
  10. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. ~Christopher McCandless

Quotes on New Beginnings (11-20):

  1. Think not the new beginning but the chance to re-energise your life. ~Philomena Mangan
  2. You’ll never get to second base if you’re afraid to take your foot off first. ~Albert Moreton
  3. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. ~John Maynard Keynes
  4. It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. ~Ernie Harwell
  5. When hardships come into your life it breaks you for a while, but when it is done with you evolve into a new person. ~Madalsa Sharma
  6. Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. ~Brian Tracy
  7. I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. ~J.B. Priestley
  8. There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. ~Niccolo Machiavelli
  9. We’re shaped by the challenges we face and our experiences good and bad. Every new experience is a chance to build our character and become the person we were always destined to be. ~Tom Irwell
  10. Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is. ~Bob Feller

Quotes on New Beginnings (21-30):

  1. I shall create a new world for myself. ~Frederic Chopin
  2. Every team you play for, you meet new friends. ~Jonas Valanciunas
  3. There’s always a new challenge to keep you motivated. ~Sean Connery
  4. Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it. ~Ben Zobrist
  5. Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. ~Carrie Underwood
  6. Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. ~Prince
  7. True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  8. The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things. ~Carol S. Dweck
  9. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny!’ ~Isaac Asimov
  10. Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities – to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work. ~Klaus Schwab

Quotes on New Beginnings (31-40):

  1. Every moment is a fresh beginning. ~T.S. Eliot
  2. The beginning is the most important part of the work. ~Plato
  3. There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind. ~C.S. Lewis
  4. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. ~Guy Finley
  5. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. ~Alan Cohen
  6. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ~J.P. Morgan
  7. Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be. ~Joel Osteen
  8. Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach
  9. It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
  10. Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut tells you to do it, you listen. ~Jennifer DeLucy

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27 Quotes by Groucho Marx to amuse you

03/25/2025 by

Groucho Marx, born Julius Henry Marx, was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star and part of the successful and immensely popular comedy act known as The Marx Brothers.

Groucho was known for his quick wit and he is widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era.

With his siblings, the Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx made 13 feature films, but he also had a successful solo career in radio and television.

Here are 27 quotes by Groucho Marx which illustrate his quick wit.

Quotes by Groucho Marx (1-10):

  1. I intend to live forever or die trying.
  2. Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.
  3. A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
  4. Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
  5. Marry me and I’ll never look at another horse!
  6. Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
  7. Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?
  8. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
  9. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
  10. She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

Quotes by Groucho Marx (11-20):

  1. I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
  2. No man goes before his time unless the boss leaves early.
  3. I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.
  4. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
  5. Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
  6. Behind every successful man is a woman, and behind her is his wife.
  7. Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?
  8. Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, well, I have others.
  9. Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
  10. If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

Quotes by Groucho Marx (21-27):

  1. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
  2. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.
  3. A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
  4. There’s one way to find out if a man is honest, ask him. If he says, yes, you know he’s a crook.
  5. One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I’ll never know.
  6. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
  7. I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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15 Quotes by Tina Fey that’ll make you think

03/24/2025 by

Today I’m exploring quotes by Tina Fey.

Tina Fey is one of the funniest women in show business, and she’s also a very smart lady.

Not only is she a comedian, but she’s also an actress, writer, and producer.

She’s best known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live and for creating the acclaimed situation comedy 30 Rock.

It’s always worth listening to successful people. Whatever worked for them might work for you.

So here are 15 quotes by Tina Fey to inspire you.

Quotes by Tina Fey

Quotes by Tina Fey:

  1. Say yes and you’ll figure it out afterwards. ~Tina Fey
  2. Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion. ~Tina Fey
  3. It will never be perfect but perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring on live TV. ~Tina Fey
  4. Sometimes if you have a difficult decision to make, just stall until the answer presents itself. ~Tina Fey
  5. Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing and don’t care if they like it. ~Tina Fey
  6. Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles. ~Tina Fey
  7. Stop calling each other sluts and whores; that makes it OK for guys to call you sluts and whores. ~Tina Fey
  8. Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade, I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while, it became part of my identity. ~Tina Fey
  9. For my first show at SNL, I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn’t getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, ‘Okay, that happened, and I did not die.’ You’ve got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. ~Tina Fey
  10. If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you’re asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do. ~Tina Fey
  11. Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like Saturday Night Live forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model. ~Tina Fey
  12. If you’re an actor and you don’t get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities. ~Tina Fey
  13. After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that’s where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you. ~Tina Fey
  14. It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist. ~Tina Fey
  15. This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. “You’re up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it’ll be between you and Barbara.” Don’t be fooled. You’re not in competition with other women. You’re in competition with everyone. ~Tina Fey

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