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Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met onthe street. (Elbert Hubbard)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

Dancing is silent poetry. (Simonides)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. (Jimmy Durante)

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. (Edward George Bulwer-Lytton)

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. (Albert Einstein)

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance (Oscar Wilde)

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. (Frank Zappa)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. (Thomas Henry Huxley)

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. (George Burns)