“We have two lives, and the second one begins when we realise we only have one.”

        — Confucius

“I love that sound a metaphor makes as it begins to fall apart.”

        — Mark Ryall (@markryall)

“He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.”

        — Turkish Proverb

“We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.”

        — Paul Boese

“Sometimes the most unnecessary parts are the most necessary parts.”

        — Caleb

“Organisations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

        — David Hanna, Designing Organizations for High Performance

“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

        — H. L. Mencken

“The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”

        — Larry Hardiman

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the the universe.”

        — Albert Einstein

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving words in evidence of the fact.”

        — George Elliot

“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”

        — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

        — Katharine Brush

“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”

        — Garrison Keillor

“UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.”

        — Doug Gwyn

“Always kiss your children good night, even if they’re already asleep.”

        — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Fortunately excitement is one of the contagious things children carry.”

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder)

“War does not determine who is right, only who is left.”

        — Bertrand Russell

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

        — Howard Scott

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.”

        — Robert Anthony

“Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.”

        — Alfred E. Neuman

“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”

        — Ghose Aurobindo