“You can tell me tomorrow about how flawed he was as a man, so long as tomorrow you also take up the work of his life.” – Dave Weinberger

We have two ears and one mouth for a reason.

“It’s far more useful to be aware of a single shortcoming in ourselves than to be aware of 1,000 in someone else.” — Dalai Lama

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -Groucho Marx

via When Insults Had Class

He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." -Samuel Johnson

via When Insults Had Class

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon's razor

People change, but not much.

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. — Leonard Cohen

Fear = problem - reason; Problem = Fear + reason

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~ Plato

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. ~ Anais Nin

I've forgotten more than I'll ever know.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Fast, Cheap, Good - Pick two.

Anything worth doing is worth doing badly - GK Chesterston

We are planting winter wheat - TJL

They make me do better than I can do - Luis Tiant, on the Red Sox fans

It was like that when I got here. - Homer Simpson

Inside every small problem, there is a large problem struggling to get out. -- C.A.R. Hoare

How come things that happen to stupid people keep happening to me? - Homer Simpson

I'm nowhere near the threat I hoped to become - Arlo Guthrie

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know that we don't know, but what we know that ain't so.

... put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Exodus 3:5 (KJV)

Drink from the well and yield your place to another. - Jose Ortega y Gasset