“What one sees depends on how one sees.”

        — Søren Kierkegaard

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

        — Plutarch

“Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.”

        — J. C. Watts

“You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”

        — Irish Proverb

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“The wowser mistakes the world for a penitentiary and themselves as the warden.”

        — Australian observation

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.”

        — Lillian Hellman

“Capslock does not make technical support want to help you more.”

        — Lindsay (Trampoline Sept 2010)

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?”

        — Satchel Paige

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

        — Francis Bacon

“My project is 90% done. I hope the second half goes as well.”

        — Scott W. Ambler (@scottwambler

“Change is inevitable. Unless you need it to feed the parking meter. Then it’s nowhere to be found.”

        — Caprice Crane

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day”

        — Sarah Hepola

“I used to think I wasn’t a morning person, but things never got better after lunch.”

        — Wally from Dilbert by Scott Adams

“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

        — Horace Mann

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

        — Leonardo da Vinci

“PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.”

        — Jon Ribbens

“A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.”

        — Rodney Dangerfield

“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)

“We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.”

        — Luciano de Crescenzo

“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit – and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”

        — Bill Vaughan

How can we call ourselves “evolved” when signs are needed to remind people to wash their hands after they go to the bathroom?

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)