Cryptogram Solutions

May 2008

Easy Level
The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. 
~Ansel Adams

Challenge Level

Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography.  Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next.  Hunters, after all, aren't cooks. 
~Henri Cartier-Bresson

April 2008

Easy Level

I see it all perfectly: There are two possibilities; one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret it either way
~Kierkegaard

Challenge Level

He had an astringent spirit, the sort of fellow who uses dehydrated onion when the recipe calls for fresh, not because he's out but solely on principle. 
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche

March 2008

Easy Level

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
~Samuel Butler

Challenge Level

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
~Brooks Atkinson

February2008

Easy Level

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. 

~Jonathan Carroll

Challenge Level

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.  ~Judith Viorst

January 2008

Easy Level

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.  ~Doug Larson

Challenge Level

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. 
~Confucius

December 2007

Easy Level

"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."~ Calvin Coolidge

Challenge Level

"Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard which hides his face, has no discernible source of income, and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?"~Tom Armstrong

October 2007

Easy Level

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."~ Linus Van Pelt


Challenge Level

"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."~ Miguel de Cervantes

September 2007

Easy Level

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.  ~Betty Reese


Challenge Level

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.  ~David T. Wolf

August 2007

Easy Level

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. 
~Edgar W. Howe

Challenge Level

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. 
~Harriet Braiker

July 2007

Easy Level
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.  
~Robert Byrne
Challenge Level
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin. It's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.  
~S.J. Perelman

June 2007

Easy Level

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children. 
~David Brenner
Challenge Level
Women, don't get a tattoo.  That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor. 
~Billy Elmer

May 2007

Easy Level
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
~ George Bernard Shaw
Challenge Level
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."
~ Wilson Mizner

April 2007

Easy Level
"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
~Charles M. Schulz
Challenge Level
"The media's appetite for celebrity-driven drivel can never be satisfied."
~Norman Lear

March 2007

Easy Level
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
~Phillip K. Dick
Challenge Level
Having intelligence is not as important as knowing when to use it, just as having a hoe is not as important as knowing when to plant.