Thought-provoking quotations (NOT quotes - thanks, Mr Ingram)

A few random quotations to inspire us as the ascent of Kilimanjaro next February moves inexorably closer...and as everyday life in 21st century England becomes more and more challenging:

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live - Samuel Johnson

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late - Benjamin Franklin

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow - Aesop

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight - Aristophanes

Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time - T.S. Elliot

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try - Sophocles

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak - G. K.Chesterton

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take - Peter Drucker

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito - Betty Reese

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it - Austin O'Malley

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger - Albert Camus

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control - Richard Kline

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes - Marcel Proust

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk - Raymond Inmon