Wit & Wisdom
From Ayn Rand, Michel Audiard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert Camus, Marty Allen, Robert Bly, Virginia Woolf
“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”
Ayn Rand, quoted in CSMonitor.com
“An idiot will try anything. That is how you know he is an idiot.”
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Screenwriter Michel Audiard, quoted in Le Figaro
“All diseases run into one, old age.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Every act of rebelling expresses a nostalgia for innocence.”
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Albert Camus, quoted in Forbes.com
“A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.”
Comedian Marty Allen, quoted in The Buffalo News
“It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.”
Poet Robert Bly, quoted in The Boston Globe
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
Virginia Woolf, quoted in the Associated Press
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