Facebook share Tweet This Email this
May you find inspiration in these thoughts and quotes on Whimsey from my large Daily Inspiration library of inspiring quotes and inspirational words.
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Live-By Cute Funny Wisdom Humor
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
Anger spells dANGER.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all
is the person who argues with him.
- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The more we know about how we lost
our spontaneous wonder and creativity,
the more we can find ways to get them back.
- John Bradshaw
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you always got.
- Mark Twain
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Don't let schooling interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
It is awfully hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Be Utterly and Dependably Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile;
giggle your laugh;
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain
What If Every Day Were Your Day -
Celebrate Whimsey Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
I am Deliciously Naughty.
I am Enchantingly Whimsical.
I am Filled With Mischief and Giggles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter F. Drucker
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I skip on the beach, and play with the waves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Thank you for visiting: Thoughts on Whimsey from Daily Inspiration.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
You can also search my large collection of Daily Inspirations.
May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Read about our terms of use, copyright, contact information, and more.