“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.”

        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you.”

        — Robert Fulghum

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

        — Josh Billings

“There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”

        — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

“I have never listened to anyone who criticised my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”

        — Ray Bradbury

“The difference between a stupid man and a wise one is the stupid man’s inability to calculate the consequences of the action. The same goes for government.”

        — Brian Penton

“Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.”

        — Benny Hill

“Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.”

        — African Proverb

“We’re not just just humans anymore. We’re not multiple personalities, we’re many personalities… uh, one of my personalities happens to be a multiple personality but that doesn’t make me a multiple personality. I’m looking for a little nuance here.”

        — Alpha, Dollhouse

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

        — Nelson Mandela

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

        — Euripides

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

        — Tatu Saloranta (@cowtowncoder) #

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

        — Fred Brooks

“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”

        — Michelangelo Buonarroti

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.”

        — Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics