Wit & Wisdom

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The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to be credible.

Mark Twain, quoted in the San Jose Mercury News

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Never doubt the courage of the French, they are the ones who discovered snails are edible.

Humorist Doug Larson, quoted in the Charlott, N.C. Observer

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History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead.

Voltaire, quoted in The New Yorker

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Another flaw in the human character is that everyone wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in The Book Reporter

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In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best beside manner.

Novelist Eric Ambler,quoted in the London Independent

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Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron,quoted in United Press International

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Philosopher Elbert Hubbard, quoted in the St. Paul, Minn., Pioneer Press

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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J.K.Rowling, quoted in The Book Reporter

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Swiss poet Johann Kaspar Lavater, quoted in the Associated Press

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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a 50-dollar haircut on a 5 -cent head.

Garrison Keillor, quoted in The Denver post

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You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.


Albert Camus, quoted in the London Times

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Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Philosopher Eric Hoffer quoted in the New York Times

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Your taught for the first five years of your life how to walk and talk; and for the next 10,you're told to shut up and sit down.

Author John Mitchinson, quoted in the london Sunday Times

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There is an association in men's minds between dullness and wisdom.

Philosopher Sydney Smith, quoted in the Financial Times

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.


Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted in United Press International

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Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Samuel Johnson, quoted in the Charlette, N.C. Observer

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in the Memphis Appeal

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Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begins when you get what you want.

Writer Irving Kristol, quoted in the Associated press

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, quoted in New York