Over the years, I’ve collected innumerable quotes from various sources – literature, celebrity interviews, newspaper clippings, lines from songs, homespun cowboy philosophers, the Bible, and the occasional anonymous writing on a wall.  All in all, I suppose they form some sort of basis for living life.  Call it my version of Benjamin Franklin’s Poor Richard’s Almanac or the late actor Charles Grodin’s How I Get Through Life.  Below are just a few of my favorite quotes that, through observation of the human condition, I’ve found to be true.

1.)  “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro”. – Hunter S. Thompson

2.)  “Just when I decided to sell out, I found out there were no buyers”. – Steve Earle

3.)  “The secret of success is sincerity.  Fake that and you’re in”. – George Burns

4.)  “If you’re going to put all of your eggs in one basket, you damn sure better watch that basket”. – Don Williams, Agriculture economics Professor West Texas State University

5.)  “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend” – From the film, “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”

6.)  “Humankind cannot bear too much reality” – T.S. Eliot from The Four Quartets

7.)  “I walked a mile in pleasure; she chattered all the way.  I walked a mile in sorrow, never a word, said she.  But all the things I learned from her when sorrow walked with me”. – Barry McGuire from the song “I Walked a Mile”

8.)  “There is enough treachery, hatred, violence, absurdity, in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day”. – Charles Bukowski from “The Genius of the Crowd”

9.)  “If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will”. –   George Jones from the song “If Drinking Don’t Kill Me”

10.)      “When I was in school, I ran with the kid down the street.  But I watched him burn himself up on bourbon and speed.  But I was smarter than most and I could choose.  Learned to talk like the man on the six o’clock news”. – Don Williams from the song “Good Ole Boys Like Me”