Wit & Wisdom

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Buy land because they're not making it anymore.

Mark Twain,quoted in the London Guardian

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There are two kinds of light-the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber,quoted in the Moble,Ala., press-Register

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Dorothy Thompson,quoted in the Associated Press

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It's never just a game when you're winning.

George Carlin,quoted in the St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer Press

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Every banker knows that if he was to prove that he is worthy of credits, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.

British journalist Walter Bagehot, quoted in The Economist

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Greed is the last safe vice.

Dennis Miller, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen

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There is no present or future. Only the past happening over and over again.

Eugene O'Neill, quoted in The New York Times

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Worry is a misuse of imagination.

Author Dan Zadra,quoted in the Syracuse, N. Y New Times

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht, quoted in the Associated Press

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The good life, as I conceive it,is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Bertrand Russell, quoted in the Johannesbugh Business Day.

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What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, quoted in the London Times

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Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffet,quoted in The New Yorker

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it's the only one you have.

Philosopher Emile Chartier, quoted in the Philipine daily Inquier

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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Edmund Burke, quoted in the Lehigh Valley,Pa., Express-Times

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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Aphorist Doug Larson,quoted in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa, Courier

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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

Journal/cartoonist Kin Hubbard, quoted in Australia's Courier Mail

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It's not true that life is one darn thing after another; it is one darn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, quoted in the Toronto Star

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The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong--but that's the way to bet.

Ring Lardner, quoted in ESPN

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You don't want to get in a wrestling match with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

Bob Dole, quoted in Time

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Isaac Newton,quoted in the Montreal Gazette