Wit & Wisdom

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.”

Charles Dickens, quoted in the Peoria, Ill., Journal Star

“The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.”

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Henry Miller, quoted in Wired.com

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.”

Serge Gainsbourg, quoted in The Buffalo News

“Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light.”

Margaret Atwood, quoted by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti

“If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.”

Playwright Tom Stoppard, quoted in the London Evening Standard

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

Carl Jung, quoted in The Australian

“Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.”

Poet Johann Lavater, quoted in Forbes.com