“Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.”

        — African Proverb

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”

        — John Cassis

“You have reached the Internal Revenue Service. To confess in English, press one…”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

        — T. S. Eliot

“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”

        — Miguel de Cervantes

“To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

        — Elbert Green Hubbard

“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.”

        — Rebecca West

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

        — Garth Brooks

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”

        — Edward H. Harriman

“Don’t judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.”

        — Unknown

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

        — Hanlon’s Razor

“There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.”

        — Josh Billings

Hip-hop music that is no longer popular should simply be referred to as “hop.”

        — Fake AP Stylebook (@FakeAPStylebook)

“God is good, but never dance in a small boat.”

        — Irish Saying

“To love would be an awfully big adventure.”

        — J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour’s.”

        — Richard Whately

“If there were an antisocial networking site, I might join, but what would be the point?”

        — Annoyed Librarian

“When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.”

        — Erma Bombeck

“Treat others as ends, never as means.”

        — Dag Hammerskjold

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

        — William Makepeace Thackeray

Happy Mothers’ Day to all.

“No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”

        — W. A. Nance

“The cat could very well be man’s best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.”

        — Doug Larson

“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point.”

        — Mistinguett

“We’re not just just humans anymore. We’re not multiple personalities, we’re many personalities… uh, one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality but that doesn’t make me a multiple personality. I’m looking for a little nuance here.”

        — Alpha, Dollhouse

“The illiterate of the 21st Century won’t be those can’t read and write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn and re-learn.”

        — Alvin Tofler

“Women were meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.”

        — Andre Gide

“The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.”

        — Arthur Lacey

“A man chases a woman until she catches him.”

        — American Proverb