“The highest reward for a man’s toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

        — John Ruskin

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

        — Unknown

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

        — Isaac Asimov

“Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”

        — Garth Brooks

“A Merry Christmas to all my friends except two.”

        — W. C. Fields

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

        — Alfred North Whitehead

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

        — Josh Billings

“Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalising animal.”

        — Robert A. Heinlein

“Whatever your advice, make it brief.”

        — Horace

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

        — Gail Carson Levine

“Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.”

        — Irisa Hail

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.”

        — Sidney Greenberg

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”

        — Unknown

“On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.”

        — Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.”

        — Unknown

“If you can put an axe through it, it’s hardware; if you want to put an axe through it, it’s software.”

        — Unknown

“All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

        — Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.”

        — Jonatan Mårtensson

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

        — Mark Twain

“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilisation.”

        — Sigmund Freud

“Some people have cats and go on to lead normal lives.”

        — Unknown

“C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.”

        — Dennis M. Ritchie