Wit & Wisdom

“You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.”

Jerry Garcia, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle

“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”

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Adam Smith, quoted in HumanEvents.com

“When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.”

H.G. Wells, quoted in Forbes.com

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience—that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

Novelist Elizabeth Taylor, quoted in The Wall Street Journal

“Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.”

George Orwell, quoted in The Guardian (U.K.)

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t.”

John Irving, quoted in The New York Review of Books

“Happy people do a great deal for their friends.”

Willa Cather, quoted in The Boston Globe