English is hard: Why are Zoey and Zoe pronounced the same but Joey and Joe aren’t? -Djimmieboy (found on Facebook)-

I’ll help you black people out. (The preferred term is people of color!) Yeah, well, I’m a person of color, too. My color is white. -Earl Stone, “Mule”-

English is hard: Don’t laugh at English as a second language person. It is rough out there! -Joy Ache Read- Comment: I no. Write? -Cathy Voght (found on Facebook)-

English is hard: You can drink a drink but you can’t food a food. -MundaneRiot (found on Facebook)-

English is hard: Pronouncing words that end in ‘ough’. Cough, bough, rough, dough, through, though…. -madamplease (found on Facebook)-

English is hard: The fact that Kansas and Arkansas are pronounced differently bothers me way more than it should. -Sherman Beardman (found on Facebook)-

Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth? -Calvin, “Calvin & Hobbes”-

I will rise above the odds that are in front of me. -76 Circle K Anigua, Hagåtña, Guam-

No one is free who is not master of himself. -Epictetus-

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. -Charles Lindbergh-