As submitted by readers of Electric Speed

• “It looks too much like what it is.” Spoken by Aubrey L. Dunn Sr. years ago. [submitted by PFJ]
• “Good, better, best. Never let it rest, ‘til your good is better, and your better's best.” —anonymous proverb (by way of Kerri Acheson’s mom)
• “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt.” —earliest iteration: Proverbs 17:28 [submitted by Marylou Ambrose]
• “But in the end, it has been the inconveniences that have mattered to me most.” —Amor Towles, in A Gentleman in Moscow [submitted by Mary Ardery]
• “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” —Amelia Earhardt [submitted by Susan Joslyn]
• “Wherever you have dreamed of going, I have camped there, and left firewood for when you arrive.” —Hafiz [submitted by Jude Prashaw]
• “The greatest problem with communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.” —earliest iteration: William H. Whyte [submitted by Jim Jackson]
• “Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.” —Jim Fiebig [submitted by Terry Odell]
• From my own mother: “I have regretted only those things I have not done.” —earliest iteration: Sydney J. Harris [submitted by Amanda Le Rougetel]
• “The grass is always greener on the other side… until you get there and discover it’s artificial turf!” —Charles Schulz (source: Snoopy poster on my son's bedroom wall @ 1980) [submitted by Dana K Cassell]
• “Cast your bread upon the waters and it will come back buttered.” —earliest iteration: Ecclesiastes 11:1 [submitted by Amy Houts]
• “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” —Charles Kingsley [submitted by Carol Cronin]
• “[In Africa,] When an old person dies, it is a library that burns down.” —Amadou Hampâté Bâ [submitted by Rose Vines]
• “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” —Mark Twain [submitted by Anastasia Mills Healy]
• “Remember that writing is translation, and the opus to be translated is yourself.” —E.B. White [submitted by Carol Bartold]
• My favorite quote is a Finnish proverb: “Happiness is the place between too little and too much.” [submitted by Ann Garvin]
• “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” —Flannery O’Connor [submitted by Bonnie Schell who adds: About collecting quotations on 3 X 5 cards, there was in San Francisco, CA, a bearded “mad” philosopher, human rights activist, and co-founder of Network Against Psychiatric Assault, named Leonard Roy Frank. He gathered quotes and book passages in his pockets from bookstores, people on the street, lectures, and court rooms. Frank was Editor of Random House Webster’s Quotationary (1999).]
• “Running away from any problem only increases the distance from the solution.” —anon. [submitted by Cindy McDonough]
• “When one teaches, two learn.” —Robert Heinlein, in Time Enough for Love (but I read it in Make It Stick) [submitted by Pete Millspaugh]