“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”

        — Edward Phelps

“People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.”

        — Unknown

“It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion.”

        — William Ralph Inge

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

        — George Bernard Shaw

“It isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”

        — Unknown

“We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.”

        — Anais Nin

“He flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”

        — Stephen Leacock

That’s why it was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards — not “not doing magic” because they couldn’t do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn’t. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn’t been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again.

        — Terry Pratchett

“When it comes to making a big change in your life, you have to want it more than you fear it.”

        — Unknown

“HTTP is the dial tone of the web.”

        — Chris Tucker

“The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.”

        — Paul Fix

“When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, educate people.”

        — Chinese Proverb

Hip-hop music that is no longer popular should simply be referred to as “hop.”

        — Fake AP Stylebook (@FakeAPStylebook)

“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”

        — Louis D. Brandeis

“To be nobody but yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

        — E. E. Cummings

“A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.”

        — Edgar A. Shoaff

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

        — Kathryn Carpenter

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

        — Mark Twain

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

        — Mark Twain

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

        — Francis Bacon

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

        — William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.”

        — Yiddish Proverb