Wit & Wisdom
J.P. Morgan; Alan Greenspan; Maya Angelou
“If you have to ask the cost of owning a yacht, you can’t afford it.”
J.P. Morgan, quoted in the Edinburgh Scotsman
“Of the many imprisonments possible in our world, one of the worst must be to be inarticulate—to be unable to tell another person what you really feel.”
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Roger Ebert, quoted in Complex.com
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Author Dorothy Parker, quoted in The Boston Globe
“Rules cannot take the place of character.”
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Alan Greenspan, quoted in Sports Illustrated
“I am embarrassed about all the Weiner jokes. I wish he would resign so the dignity of comedy may live again.”
Albert Brooks, quoted in The New York Times
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future…a day in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
Maya Angelou, quoted in Real Simple
“Be the first to not do what nobody has ever thought of not doing before.”
Brian Eno, quoted in the Financial Times
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