With reasonable men I will reason;
with humane men I will plead;
but to tyrants I will give no quarter.
                -- William Lloyd Garrison

No people are all bad, just as none are all good.
Tecumseh, (Shawnee) to his nephew Spemica Lawba 1790

If there is any better use for being famous and respected than using that
status to question orthodoxy, I haven't found it yet.
                -- Eric S. Raymond, in "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"

Before you put a really dark background on your web page, ask yourself
this:  Why is it so much harder to drive at night than in the daytime?
                -- Henri de Toulouse-LaTech

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
                -- Laurence Peter

To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a
test load.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day.
I haven't had time for tobacco since.
                -- Arturo Toscanini

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes.  Let the reader
catch his own breath.
                -- Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart