Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes

Feel free to reciprocate

I’m doing something different today. I’m sharing 52 of my favorite quotations—one for each week of the year.

Feel free to reciprocate. If you have wise sayings or pleasing maxims not included here, please share them in the comments.

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52 FAVORITE QUOTES

"It's a fool who plays it cool by making the world a little colder."
Paul McCartney

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"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
John Wooden

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“Everything not saved will be lost.”
Nintendo video game warning when the system shuts down

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“Make the drummer sound good.”
Thelonious Monk

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"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."
Joan Didion

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"Disciple: ‘Why is there evil in the universe?’
Ramakrishna: ‘To thicken the plot.’”

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“It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how.”
The Cat in the Hat

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“Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
Anne Lamott

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“I have no enemies. But my friends don’t like me.”
Philip Larkin

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"The man who does not quarrel is a bachelor."
St. Jerome

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“Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
Polish proverb