“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never fail to imitate them.”

— James Baldwin

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”

— Confucius

“Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.”

— George Meredith

“The less men think, the more they talk.”

— L. de Montesquieu

“Right is right even when everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong even when everyone is for it.”

— William Penn

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

— Winston Churchill

“A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.”

— Eleanor Hamilton

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.

“It is double the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”

— Jean de la Fontaine

“Beware the fury of a patient man.”

— John Dryden