"There is little serenity comparable to the serenity of the inexperienced giving advice to the experienced." (Anonymous)

"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." (Plato)

"She who is outside her door already has the hard part of her journey behind her." (Dutch proverb)

“Net—the biggest word in the language of business.” (Herbert Casson)

“All business proceeds on beliefs, on judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.” (Charles William Eliot)

"But good writers have a reason for doing things the way they do them, and if you tinker with their work, taking it upon yourself to neutralize a slightly eccentric usage or zap a comma or sharpen the emphasis of something that the writer was deliberately keeping obscure, you are not helping. In my experience, the really great writers enjoy the editorial process. They weigh queries, and they accept or reject them for good reasons. They are not defensive. The whole point of having things read before publication is to test their effect on a general reader. You want to make sure when you go out there that the tag on the back of your collar isn't poking up—unless, of course, you are deliberately wearing your clothes inside out." (Mary Norris, Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen)

If Joe Rogan was named Josh Rogan, the inverse of his name would be Rogan Josh.

“He went to the carts in which the company provisions were kept. His heart was pounding. Everything of the past, everything that had been smothered by the hard life of war, the current Cossack bivouacs—it all came floating to the surface, drowning everything of the present. Once more the image of the proud young woman emerged before him as if from the dark depths of the ocean. Again her beautiful arms shimmered in his memory, her eyes, her laughing mouth, her thick, chestnut-colored hair tumbling in curls over her breasts, her lithe harmonious limbs. No, they had not faded, they had not disappeared from his heart, they had only moved to the side for a while in order to make way for other powerful emotions. But often the young Cossack’s deepest sleep had been troubled by these images. And often, walking with a start, he lay sleepless on his straw unable to understand what was happening to him.” (Nikolai Gogol, Taras Bulba)

“This I regard as history’s highest function: to let no action be uncommunicated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.” (Tacitus)

"Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death... Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists observe." (Elaine Pagels, Why Religion?: A Personal Story)

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it." (Lytton Strachey)

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” (Michelangelo Buonarroti)

Swift has sailed into his rest;

Savage indignation there cannot lacerate his breast.

Imitate him if you dare, world-besotted traveler;

He served human liberty.

(Jonathan Swift’s epitaph)

Wagger, n. The agreeable swaying a dog makes when it walks; akin to ‘swagger’ for humans.

“That dog’s got real wagger “

“A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

"Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet." (Anonymous)

Velcro = Velvet and Crochet

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” (Adam Smith)

Philophile, n. Lover of ‘philes.’

“Capital is past savings accumulated for future production.” (Jackson Martindell)