“I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.”

        — Mark Twain

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

        — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”

        — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.”

        — Unknown

“Joy, I think, is a tougher, gutsier emotion than despair. We’re not going to mope our way to a brighter future or better lives.”

        — Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen)

“The easiest way to save face is to keep the lower half shut.”

        — Unknown

“Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

        — Sophia Loren

“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”

        — Sam Keen

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.”

        — Peter Williams

“No matter how hard you push and no matter what the priority, you can’t increase the speed of light.”

        — R. Callon, RFC1925: The Twelve Networking Truths

“You always pass failure on your way to success.”

        — Mickey Rooney

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.”

        — Jean Kerr

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

“No matter how big and bad you are, when a two year old hands you a toy phone, you answer it.”

        — Unknown

“The best way to sound like you know what you’re talking about is to know what you’re talking about.”

        — Unknown

“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”

        — Ray Bradbury

(Two quotes today, in memory of Mr. Bradbury.)

“I have never listened to anyone who criticised my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

        — Ray Bradbury

“We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.”

        — Unknown

“Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.”

        — Dandemis

“There’s nothing more noble than a good try.”

        — Gordon Parks

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and informed just to be undecided about them.”

        — Laurence J. Peter