Posted on September 24, 2022September 23, 2022 “Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”—William Shakespeare, English playwright, 1564-1616
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 21, 2022September 20, 2022 “When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will win.”—Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 604-531 BC
Posted on September 19, 2022 “Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935
Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022 “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891
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 September 16, 2022 “Would you rise in the world, veil ambition with the forms of humanity.”—Chinese proverb
Posted on September 15, 2022 “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940
Posted on September 14, 2022 “Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.”—Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), Roman philosopher, 1st century BC
Posted on September 12, 2022 “You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”—Aristophanes, Greek playwright, 446-386 BC
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