Wit & Wisdom

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Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit.

Poet David McCord,quoted in United Press International

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It is a fact of life that any discourse, on any subject, whatever the occasion and whatever the status of the speaker, will always please if it is five minutes shorter than people expect.

Paul Johnson,quoted in the london Spector.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George bernard Shaw, quoted in the lexinton, Ky., Herald-Leader.

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It is not how old you sre,but how you are old.

french author Jules Renard, quoted in the Salt Lake City Deseret morning News

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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Ray Bradbury, quoted in the Pembroke, Ontario, Observer

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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

Rudyard Kipling, quoted in The San Diego Union-Tribune

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I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

Author Fran lebowitz, quoted in the Christchurch, New Zealand, Press

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

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A man who is tired of complaining is tired of life.


Julian Baggini, quoted in the London Times

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Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Bill Gates, quoted in The Denver Post

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Sentimentality is unearned emotion.


James Joyce,quoted in the Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard

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Trouble impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

M. Schlesinger Jr. quoted in the Associated press

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If inflation continues to soat,you're going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.

Comedian George Gobel, quoted in the Johannesburg Times

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Of course I believe in luck. How else to explain the success of those you dislike.

Jean Cocteau, quoted in The Washington Post

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, qyouted in the London Independent

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There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you're 18.

P.J. O'Rourke, quoted in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated

Brenda Hammond, quoted in Forbes

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The only normal people are the ones you don't now very well.

Joe Ancis, quoted in the Book reporter

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Experience is simply the mane we give our mistakes.

oscar Wilde, quoted in the Sportingnews