“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career.”

        — George Bernard Shaw

“If you lend someone twenty dollars, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.”

        — Unknown

“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.”

        — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

“Young people need models, not critics.”

        — John Wooden

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

        — Malcolm Muggeridge

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

        — Unknown

“Then what are we fighting for?”

        — Winston Churchill in response to a suggestion of cutting arts funding to support the war effort

“The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++”

        — David Jameson

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

        — Saint Augustine

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

        — Mae West

“My mind is like my internet browser. Nineteen tabs are open, three of them are frozen, and I have no idea where the music is coming from.”

        — Unknown

Events do not come naked into the public sphere. They come clothed in attitudes, values, frames of mind, recollections of the past, and projections into the future, full of passion, hope, and fear.

        — Robert Darnton

“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”

        — Naguib Mahfouz

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

        — William Shakespeare, Hamlet Act III Scene I

“Everybody always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it.”

        — Mark Twain

“If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.”

        — Jan McKeithen

“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

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.”

        — Kathryn Carpenter

“They say a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on. Why the truth is pantsless, no one mentions.”

        — Caprice Crane (@capricecrane)

“A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.”

        — James Freeman Clarke

“For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”

        — Mark Twain

“Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It’ll be the only one trying.”

        — Jack Lang

“Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.”

        — Unknown