Blog Quotes of the Day

It's been awhile since I posted some of these, so back by...uh...popular demand of the past, I bring you some silliness for today:

If bloggers stopped blogging about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty web pages.

~ inspired by Elaine Liner

The man who blogs about himself and his own time is the only man who blogs about all people and all time.

~ inspired by George Bernard Shaw

The role of a blogger is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

~ inspired by Anais Nin

Either blog something worth blogging or do something worth blogging.

~ inspired by Ben Franklin

And for the cherry of truth atop a cupcake of silliness:

The skill of blogging is to create a context in which anonymous commenters can flame without fear of reprisal.

~ loosely inspired by Edwin Schlossberg

January Blog Quote of the Day

It's been awhile since I've slightly altered famous quotes, and if you recall, by popular acclaim I suggested that perhaps I could make this bit of humor a regular feature. Too soon, I realized that just wasn't going to happen but every so often I come across a fun series of quotes. As I like to keep my readership happy, and as many of my regular readers are bloggers themselves, well, I hope these bits of self-deprecating but all-too-truthful humor bring a little brightness to you day.

Without further ado, here are some more clever commentaries about blogging thanks to (real) authors:

Bloggers are easy to get on with - if you like children

~ inspired by Michael Joseph (1897-1958)

I post blogs because it's a way of making statements I can disown, and I tweet because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

~ inspired by Tom Stoppard

A blogger is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted.

~ inspired by Charles Poore 

A blog is never finished, only abandoned.

~ inspired by Paul Valery 

Immature bloggers imitate; mature bloggers steal

~ inspired by T.S. Eliot

Finishing a blog post is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. 

~  inspired by Truman Capote

Too many blogs finish too long after the end.

~ inspired by Igor Stravinsky 

Blogging Quotes of the Day

Man is least himself when he comments in his own name. Give him a blog and a pseudonym, and he will tell you the truth. 

~ inspired by Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Blogging is turning one's worst moments into utter hilarity without a microphone and MC to cue the crowd.

~ loosely inspired by J.P. Donleavy - the rest is my observation.
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I blog to discover what I  know.
~ Flannery O'Connor
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There is no excuse for anyone to write a blog for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of blogging not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
— Flannery O'Connor
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Blogging Quotes for Today

Please enjoy another installment of my new feature, requested by my regular commenters.

Please note that NONE of the quotes are directed at or about any particular person, but rather, are meant to poke fun at we bloggers in general and what we do, whether virtuously or vicefully.  (Yes, I made that word up. I'm a blogger. Dictionaries don't apply to me.)

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"Great Moments in Blogging:  In 2008, a popular Catholic blogger attended Mass and witnessed liturgical abuse, but out of a moment of charity, decided not to blog an outraged rant about it upon returning home." 

 ~ Inspired by a Guindon cartoon caption about Ernest Hemingway

"Blogging largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones is dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive"  

~ slightly edited quote by G.K. Chesterton

"Bloggers should be read, but neither seen nor heard."

~ Inspired by Daphne Du Maurier

"If you haven't got anything nice to say to anybody, come write at my blog!" 

~ Inspired by a famous quote from Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

Saturday Blog Quote

Please, Lord, teach us to blog again; but God, don't ever let us forget that we had blogger's block. 

~ inspired by Bill Wilson

(The original quote: "Please, Lord, teach us to laugh again; but God, don't ever let us forget that we cried."

Tuesday Blog Quote

Blogging is easy. All you do is stare at a blank screen until drops of blood form on your forehead. 

~ inspired by Gene Fowler (1890-1960)

By Popular Demand - New Feature!

My recent post On Blogging and Criticism seems to have been a big hit, and there have been some (albeit tongue-in-cheek) requests for more or to make it a regular feature.

Because I'm a geek, a blogger, and enjoy a bit o' humor, I have decided that I am going to try to have a Daily Blogging Quote.

Without further ado, here is Monday Blog Quote of the Day:

"Every blogger has a blog in him, which is an excellent place for it. "

 ~ inspired by Russell Lynes 

Happy Blogging!  ;-)