“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, quoted in The Buffalo News
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
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“Don’t be possessed by your possessions.”
Photographer Lisl Steiner, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
Gore Vidal, quoted in Forbes.com
“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.”
Novelist Victoria Wolff, quoted in Real Simple
“Most human beings are quite likable if you don’t see too much of them.”
Irish writer Robert Wilson Lynd, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal
