Wit & Wisdom

From Marianne Moore, Neil Young, Will Rogers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Julian Barnes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stephen King

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”

Poet Marianne Moore, quoted in the Nashville Tennessean

“If you follow every dream, you might get lost.”

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“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”

Will Rogers, quoted in SportsIllustrated.com

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com

“Cooking is the transformation of uncertainty into certainty via fuss.”

Author Julian Barnes, quoted in The Boston Globe

“Nothing is worse than active ignorance.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in The Wichita Eagle

“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”

Stephen King, quoted in AL.com