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Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:13 pm
by noreply66
The final lesson of history: Let's never go back there again.
Friedrich Nietzsche,quoted in the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:34 am
by BubbleGumTiger
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:02 pm
by noreply66
Being in politics is like being a football coach.You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy,quoted in the London Independent
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:14 pm
by noreply66
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 9:32 pm
by noreply66
A moment insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendall Holmes, quoted in United press International
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:05 pm
by noreply66
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 3:24 pm
by noreply66
Man is the only animal that blushes-or needs to.
Mark Twain
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:55 pm
by noreply66
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell, quoted in United Press International
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:57 am
by noreply66
Money is only useful when you get rid of it.
Evelyn Waugh, quoted in the Yorkshire, U.K. Post
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 2:07 pm
by noreply66
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.
Entertainer Oscar Levant, quoted in the Dallas Morning news
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:19 am
by BubbleGumTiger
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Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:13 pm
by noreply66
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwwod, quoted in the Denver Post
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 8:24 pm
by noreply66
I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:13 pm
by noreply66
I have never seen a piece of writing, political or nonpolitical, that does not have a slant. It slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
E.B. White, quoted in the Wall Tree Journal.
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 6:27 pm
by noreply66
The worst thing that can happen to you can be the best thing for you, if you don't let it get the best of you.
Will Rogers, quoted in the London Independent
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:33 pm
by noreply66
It is not the Mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary, quoted in the Contra Costa, California, Times
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:50 pm
by noreply66
If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you have ever tried.
Ricky Gervais, qoted in the London Times
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:57 pm
by noreply66
Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.
Sen. Dianne Feistein, quoted in the Lowell, Mass., Sun
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 8:30 pm
by noreply66
Fortune favors the audacious
Desiderius Erasmus,quoted in Forbes
Re: Wit & Wisdom
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:39 pm
by noreply66
Never confuse the stock market with the economy.
Ronald Reagan, quoted on ESPN