Wit & Wisdom
From Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Winston Churchill, Gloria Steinem, Keith Richards, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, André Maurois
“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.”
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, quoted in The Buffalo News
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
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Winston Churchill, quoted in AlbanyHerald.com
“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.”
Gloria Steinem, quoted in Glamour
“If you’re going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.”
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Keith Richards, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted in the Battle Creek, Mich., Enquirer
“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quoted in the Associated Press
“Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.”
Author André Maurois, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
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