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Posted on June 30, 2022June 30, 2022

“There comes a time in every man’s life and I’ve had many of them.”—Casey Stengel, American baseball manager, 1890-1975

Posted on June 30, 2022August 5, 2022

“Develop your eccentricities while you’re young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going senile.”—David Ogilvy, US advertising executive, 1911-1999

Posted on June 27, 2022June 27, 2022

“There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.”—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist, 1742-1799

Posted on June 26, 2022

“A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income.”—Lord Chesterfield, British statesman, 1694-1773

Posted on June 22, 2022

“Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.”—Fran Lebowitz, American author, b. 1950

Posted on June 21, 2022June 22, 2022

“The fact is, writing can be done only during the time when one ought to be doing something else.”— Isabel Paterson, Canadian-American journalist, 1886-1961

Posted on June 21, 2022June 20, 2022

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.”—Hippocrates, Greek physician, 460-370 BC

Posted on June 18, 2022June 18, 2022

“When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.”—Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, 1930-2013

Posted on June 6, 2022

“At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.”—George Orwell, English novelist, 1903-1950

Posted on June 5, 2022

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

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