Wit & Wisdom

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

Mark Twain, quoted in the Napa Valley, Calif., Register

“Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.”

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Ayn Rand, quoted in The Boston Globe

“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”

British journalist Walter Bagehot, quoted in Forbes.com

“Friendship is born at the moment one person says to another: ‘What? You too? I thought I was the only one.’”

C.S. Lewis, quoted in USA Today

“Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own feet while reclining on couches.”

Sigmund Freud, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com

“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”

Austrian journalist Alfred Polgar, quoted in the Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel

“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”

Zelda Fitzgerald, quoted in The Wall Street Journal