“I named my kitten Rose: fur soft as a petal, claws sharper than thorns.”

        — Astrid Alauda

“If Tetris has taught me anything, it’s that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear.”

        — Mana (@damana)

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

        — Plato

“Depression means you cannot enjoy cats on the Internet.”

        — Paul Fenwick (watch @pjf’s five minute talk on YouTube)

“There is no failure. Only feedback.”

        — Robert Allen

“The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.”

        — Unknown

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.”

        — Mark Twain

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”

        — Richard Carlson

“He was jeopardising his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

        — Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Twitter spoils us. If only we could limit people in real life to 140 characters or less.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“…Plus it’s the only way George Lucas characters will ever be three dimensional.”

        — Peter David

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

        — Francis Bacon

“There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life – reciprocity.”

        — Confucius

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”

        — Edna Woolman Chase

“Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it necessary? Is it true? Does it improve upon the silence?”

        — Shirdi Sai Baba

“I am pretty sure no matter what I put in my Facebook status, I won’t cure cancer, help Haiti or raise awareness for anything, except my Facebook status.”

        — Lyz Lenz (@lyzl)

“Corporate policy is the great leveller, allows the gibbering idiot not to think and drives the intelligent to gibbering idiocy.”

        — Adam Donnison

“When you sling mud, you lose ground.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“Remember, you can do work outside of your paid hours as well.”

        — Clients From Hell

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

        — John F. Kennedy, 1962