Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022 “There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)
Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022 “What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”—Oscar Levant, American comedian, 1906-1972
Posted on August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 “If fortune wants to do you in, she makes you stupid.”—Publilius Syrus, Roman maxim-writer, 85 BC — 43 BC
Posted on July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 “Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, 1742-1799
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