Wit & Wisdom

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I don't do drugs 'cause I find I get the same effect just by standing up really fast.

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Journalist Sydney J. Harris, quoted in the Chicago Tribune

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Samuel Johnson,quoted in the Broadcast News

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Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brake on.

Author Budd Schulberg,quoted in the Canberra, Australia, Times

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A thief believes everybody steals

Author Edward W. Howe,quoted in the BBC

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There are people who,instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

French playwright Albert Guinon,quoted in The San Diego Union- Tribune.

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In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell, quoted in the London Independent

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The difference between perserverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher,quoted in the Ontario Farmer

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He that spits against the wind spits in his own face.

Benjamin Franklin, quoted in The New York Review of Books

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How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception.

French author Alfred de Musset,quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard, quoted in SF Weekly

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"In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king ..." Chris Farley

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton, quoted in Forbes

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Edward Gibson, quoted in The Washington Times

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Listening to advice often accomplished far more than heeding it.


Malcolm Forbes, quoted in the Albany New York, Times Union

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If you do not understand a man, you cannot crush him.And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

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Life is getting up one more time than you've been knoked down.

John Wayne, quoted in The Wall Street Journal

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The resolved mind hath no cares.

Poet George Hergert, Quoted in Forbes

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Many people suffer more in anticipation than they do under the actual blows of misfortune.

Eleanor Roosevelt, quoted in ESPN The Magazine

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For travel to be delightful, one must have a good place to leave and return to.

Author Frederick B. Wilcox, quoted in The Denver post