Match these people with the wit & wisdom offered below.
Thomas Edison
Gloria Steinem
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Shirley MacLaine
Paulo Coelho
Robert Louis Stevenson
1. “Do something instead of killing time, because time is killing you.”
2. “It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.”
3. “There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”
4. “The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.”
5. “Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
ANSWERS
1. Author Paulo Coelho 2. Shirley MacLaine 3. Robert Louis Stevenson 4. Gloria Steinem 5. Thomas Edison
