Wit & Wisdom

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We are all of us resigned to death; it's life we aren't resigned to.

Graham Greene, quoted in Smithsonian

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There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

French politician Alexandre Ledru-Rollin,quoted in ESPN

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You know what charm is; a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question

Albert camus, quoted in The Washington Post

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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia.

H.L. Menchen, quoted in The Denver Post

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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley, quoted in Industry Week

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It is better to be envied than to be pitied.

Herodotus, quoted in Forbes

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Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American Politics

Onetime U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow, quoted in the Birmingham, Ala. ,Post

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde, quoted in the Lansing, Michigan, State Journal

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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Humorist Robert Orben, quoted in the Salt Lake City Deseret News

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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Will Rogers, quoted in the Savanah, Georgia Morning News

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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.


Quentin Crisp, quoted in the Atlantic Journal-Constitution

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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler, quoted in NYTimes

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That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows endures.

Poet Josiah Gilbert Holland, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

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A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

Statesman John Foster Dulles, quoted in United Press

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde,quoted in the Hartford Courant

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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Publisher Alfred A. Knof, quoted in the New Statesman

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It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Mark Twain, quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Nature can be cruel. Just as you start getting your head together and feeling sorted, your body starts slowing down.

Actor Hugo Speer, quoted in the London Express

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Those who speak most of progress measures it by quantity and not by quality.

Philosopher George Santayana, quoted in the Johannesburg Business Day