I LOVE QUOTES

I have been collecting quotes for years.  I have them on scraps of paper, in notebooks, and post it notes.  They pop up on web pages, Pinterest, Tumblr and books I'm reading.  

Couldn't tell you why I love them so much.  Maybe it's because I'm not smart enough to make up my own.  Maybe it's because I just love them.  

Sad thing is that most quotes from the internet do not have the author's name.  I know I'm an old person and I believe this is a tragedy and very thoughtless of the person sharing.  You find a quote, no name, find it again attributed to one person, find it again attributed to another.  Then you Google it and find neither name is correct.  I try to look them all up if I'm going to use them.

And I do use them.  Every day a new quote, with color and pictures, find it's way to my Facebook page.  When I was working, a print out was hung on the wall and the employees came to see what was pinned up for the day.  

I like funny quotes, serious quotes, and thought provoking quotes.  Somewhere I read (another quote)  that you liked a quote because of the mood you were in.  I think that's probably true.  I often look at one scribbled on a scrap of paper and wonder why I picked it.  I can go back to a website and reread the quotes and find one that is right up my alley even though I skipped it before.  

After all the history of mankind, the quotes just keep coming.  And I keep scratching them on a piece of paper to store in a box and pull out to share once in a while.