Wit & Wisdom

“It’s too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis.”

George Burns, quoted in the Contra Costa, Calif., Times

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

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Maya Angelou, quoted in The Idaho Statesman

“A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.”

Lawyer Louis Nizer, quoted in The Buffalo News

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”

Eldridge Cleaver, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald

“Ideology is just a pejorative word for principles in which you happen not to believe.”

The columnist ‘Lexington,’ in The Economist

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures, and that is character.”

Horace Greeley, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

“We must learn to love life without ever trusting it.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in The Boston Globe