By popular request (well, just one request), here is a quotes thread.
No need for banter, just post something inspiring, thought provoking, clever, or fun.
I’ll start. This one epitomizes my contributions to the old forum.
“Moving the mouse on the screen is not a thing to brag about. The mouse is not a dog that needs exercise.”-Alin Vargatu
Wow! I think this is the first time I see myself quoted. It’s scary. 
“The destruction of prejudice is an admirable goal. But if you destroy prejudices without replacing them with higher values — the pursuit of truth, the ability to reason and argue, to challenge and be challenged in turn — then what you are providing is not education, it’s a lobotomy: virtuous but morally hollow.”
Jen Gerson
“There is a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
Oscar Levant
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach [their] goals.”
- Dorothy Height
“We all require and want respect, man or woman, Black or white. It’s our basic human right.”
- Aretha Franklin
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Jean Rostand
But that request was very popular, i hear.
Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
GK Chesterton
It’s a very long quote. Full: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8254513-angels-can-fly-because-they-can-take-themselves-lightly-this
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.”
- Walt Whitman
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
“Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood”
Bill Murray
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Related to that is this one:
“72 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
-Dilbert(?)
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
A handful of favorites that I’ve collected over the years…
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
Anatole France
Integrity has no need of rules
Albert Camus
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there
Will Rogers
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car
Kenneth Tynan
Admitting error clears the score-and proves you wiser than before
Arthur Guiterman
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it
Brendan Francis
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
Norman Vincent Peale
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn
David Russell
The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated
William James
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy the kind of misery you prefer
Hobart Brown
We must use the time as a tool not as a couch
John F. Kennedy
People are always ready to recognize a man’s ability…after he gets there
Bob Edwards
Freedom is a system based on courage
Charles Peguy
A problem well stated is a problem half solved
Charles F. Kettering
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a mater of choice, it is not a thing to be waited for, but something to be achieved
William Jennings Bryan
Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion
Dwight MacDonald
If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else
Laurence J. Peter
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings
Hadding Carter
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it
Sydney J. Harris
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance
Robert Quillen
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
Theodore Roosevelt
The trouble with self-made men is that they worship their creator
Unknown
It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile
Gary Marshall
The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it
John Ruskin
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe
Marilyn Vos Savant
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly
Sam Keen
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn
Unknown
There’s no limit to what a man can do, or where he can go, if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit
Ronald Reagan
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company
Oscar Wilde