“Prejudices about what it means to be a person necessarily exclude those who are not bright on the stage of common action; those who do not welcome the glare of shining, blinding smiles, who do not lean closer to hear the roar and macramé of shouted words, who do not cut themselves and mould their flesh and spirit to fit the narrow human path, funnelling upward without looking back.”

        — Dawn Prince-Hughes, Songs of the Gorilla Nation

“In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.”

        — John Churton Collins

“Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be.”

        — Duncan Trussell

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”

        — Albert Einstein

“Ever since I discovered Twitter, I’ve been trying to stop using it.”

        — Giles Bowkett

“My shoes probably think I died.”

        — Bαѕєм|باسم #QuarantineQuotes

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

        — Aristotle

“To avoid criticism , do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

        — Elbert Green Hubbard

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool”

        — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”

        — Ziggy by Tom Wilson

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.”

        — Werner Finck

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”

        — Howard Aiken

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

        — Saint Augustine

“No matter what it is I’m doing, there’s always about an 85% chance I’m supposed to be doing something else.”

        — Caprice Crane (@CapricecCrane)

“It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.”

        — Unknown

“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”

        — Byron J. Langenfeld

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”

        — Emma Goldman

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

        — Garrison Keillor

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

        — Unknown

“Sometimes there is a silver bullet for boosting software engineering productivity. But you need to shoot the right person.”

        — Michael Stal (@stal_m)