"I wish I had said that..."

When I run across a quote that strikes me as insightful or funny, I put it in a file. Here are a few favorites skimmed from the 200+ that have piled up over the years.
 
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. -Elbert Hubbard

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. -Sean O'Casey

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -Sir Barnett Cocks

Insanity in individuals is something rare–but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it  often substitutes for both. -John Andrew Holmes

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. -Buddha

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. -Garrison Keillor

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. -Arthur Clarke