PERSONAL NOTE: It has been my hobby to collect quotes for many years. These come from many different sources and by diverse personalities from all walks of life. Friends of mine often send me great quotes, which I appreciate. Sometimes I’ll read a quote that encourages me, but I don’t know anything about the person who said it.

The list of “Quotes and Quips” I send out is very eclectic. Any quote I include in the list does not necessary mean I endorse or agree with that person’s life style, politics, or religious beliefs. Even a broken clock is correct two times a day. These quotes have been a personal help and encouragement to me regardless of who said it.

There are several hundred people on my subscriber list who receive these quotes. Some are professional business people, registered nurses, educators, preachers, real estate brokers, financial advisors, and church members from various denominations. I hope those who receive my monthly “Quotes and Quips” can find something that will be an encouragement to them. Obviously not everything included in my quotes is going to please everyone. As I quoted Herbert Bayard Swope last month: “I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure— try to please everybody.” If you dislike any of the people I quote, just disregard that quote and pass on by to the next one. It is like eating watermelon—Eat the good stuff and spit out the seeds.

Now, with that disclaimer out of the way, here are November’s Quotes & Quips… Hope you find some nugget of truth to bless your life.

• “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” (Woodrow Wilson, quoted in Reader’s Digest)
• “A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social-networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social-networking sites.” (Jimmy Fallon)
• “It’s not that I’m so smart… It’s just that I stay with problems longer.” (Albert Einstein, quoted in The American Spectator)
• “The richer your friends are, the more they will cost you.” (Elisabeth Marbury, quoted in the Associated Press)
• “Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
• “Always acknowledge a fault. this will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.” (Mark Twain, quoted in the London Times)
• “Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” (Miguel de Cervantes, quoted in United Press International)
• “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings a happy death.” (Leonardo da Vinci, quoted in the Tallahassee Democrat)
• “Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.” (John Lithgow, quoted in the Illawarra, Australia, Mercury)
• “Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.” (Henri Frederic)
• “Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.” (British naval commander Horatio Nelson)
• “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” (C.S. Lewis)
• “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” (George Larimer)
• “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” (Benjamin Franklin, quoted in the Monterrey County, Calif., Herald)
• “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.” (Frank Zappa, quoted in Forbes.com)
• “There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth: Those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.” (Germaine de Stael, quoted in the Boulder, Cool., Daily Camera)
• “I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.” (Thomas Babington Macaulay, born 1800)
• “Keep one thing in view forever—the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.” (Horace Mann)
• “Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a ‘necessary evil,’ it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.” (Sidney J. Harris)
• “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” (C.S. Lewis, quoted in Finding Common Ground)
• “An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.” (Agatha Christie, quoted in the Cardiff, Wales, Western Mail)

Have a Happy Thanksgiving this month. We are truly blessed and have much to be thankful for! See you in December with another batch of quotes and quips.