“I think I just ate my willpower.”

        — Unknown

(Good luck to all those with New Year resolutions.)

“Theory helps us bear our ignorance of facts.”

        — George Santayana

“Everyone likes somebody who gets to the point quickly.”

        — David Cain

“There are too many people, and too few human beings.”

        — Robert Zend

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”

        — Roy L. Smith

“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”

        — Lady Bird Johnson

“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”

        — Unknown

“Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

        — Josh Billings

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.”

        — Unknown

“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

“Rewriting is an opportunity to find new ways of coding old bugs, as well as exciting new bugs.”

        — Unknown

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

        — Euripides

“The bigger the hat, the smaller the property.”

        — Australian Proverb

“Gantt charts aren’t a management tool. They are a visualization tool. Management tools are listening, acting, and faith.”

        — John Kordyback ‏(@jkordyback)

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”

        — Francis Bacon

“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.”

        — Franklin P. Jones

“It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

        — Alfred Adler

“Sometimes when you trade tradition for progress you wind up with neither. This isn’t one of those occasions but still, it’s a catchy saying.”

        — In Plain Sight

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”

        — George S. Patton