Wit & Wisdom

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

george Washington, quoted in United Press International

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Not to be able to grow old is just as ridiculous as to be unable to outgrow childhood.

Carl Jung, quoted in the Richmandd,Va.,Times Dispatch

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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Biologist Jonas Salk, quoted in the Charlotte, N.C., Observer

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This thing we call failure is not the falling down,but the staying down.

Actress Mary Pickford, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

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If you can fake sinserity, you've got it made.

Movie magnate Sam Goldwyn, quoted in New York magazine.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltarie, quoted in Forbes

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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

John Ruskin, quoted in the London Daily Telegraph

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but i can give you the formula for failure--which is -try to please everyone.

Journalist Herbert Bayard Swope, quoted in the Naples, Florida, daily News

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In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the things difficult to obtain.

Mark Twain, quoted in the Buffalo News

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churdhill,quoted in the St. John, New Brunswick, Telegraph-Journal

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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Radio commentator Paul Harvey, quoted in The Buffalo News

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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

Philosopher Eric Hoffer, quoterd in the Broadcast News

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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H.L.Mencken,quoted in the London Times

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The further back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Winston Churchill, quoted in the Lochaber, Scotland, News

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twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Mark Twain, quoted in the Wilmington,Ohio News Journal

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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Alice Walker,quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald

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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Wroter Elbert Hubbard, quoted in the Macon, Ga., Telegraph

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I live in my own little world but it's OK, everyone knows me here.

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The greatest of faults, I would say,is to be conscious of none.

Historian Thomas Carlyle, quoted in the Johanneburg Business Day

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I saw a rather large woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?"