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

        — Yiddish Proverb

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

        — Bill Cosby

“The wowser mistakes the world for a penitentiary and themselves as the warden.”

        — Australian observation

“Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.”

        — Wilson Mizner

“A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.”

        — Barnett Cocks

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

        — Unknown

“Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

        — St Antoine de Exupéry

“My writing process: 50 percent pacing, 20 percent snacks, 18 percent furious weeping, 12 percent actual writing.”

        — Brendan I. Koerner (@brendankoerner)

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

        — Oscar Wilde

“Vegetarian: A person who eats only side dishes.”

        — Gerald Lieberman

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”

        — Andre Gide

“The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.”

        — Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”

        — Rich Kulawiec

“Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”

        — Gian Vincenzo Gravina

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”

        — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe