Wit & Wisdom

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keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Helen Keller,quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

Flannery O'Connor, quoted in the Charlotte, N.C. Observer

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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Clarence Thomas, quoted in the Madison, Ind., Chicago

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Don't trust nobody but your mama, and even then look at her real good.

Bo Diddley,quoted in The New York Times

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Love is a Springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Gustave Flaubert,quoted in U.S. News World Report.

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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Philosopher Alan Watts, quoted in The Denver Post

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Character is simpley habit long continued.

Plutarch, quoted in United Press International

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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Educator Laurence J. Peter, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford, quoted in the London Daily Telegraph

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Novelist Arnold Bennett, quoted in the Woodstock, Ontario, Sentinel-Review

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau, quoted in the Santa Cruz, California, Sentinel

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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Poet James Russell Lowell, quoted in the Ghanaian Chronicle.

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The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

Novelist William Dean Howells, quoted in the Associated press

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Life is like a B movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.


Ted Turner,quoted in The Denver Post

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History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. Mark Twain,quoted in the Bergen County, N.J., Record

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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin.quoted in the Toronto Globe and Mail

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in the Orange County California, Register

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Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity. It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

William Faulkner, quoted in the Zambia, Africa, Times

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Man needs more to be reminded than instructed.

Samuel johnson, quoted in The wall Street Journal

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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams, quoted in the San Diego Union-Tribune