Wit & Wisdom

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.”

Abraham Lincoln, quoted in MarketWatch.com

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

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Samuel Johnson, quoted in the Monterey County, Calif., Herald

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

Oprah Winfrey, quoted in the Tulsa World

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.”

Ivan Turgenev, quoted in the Associated Press

“Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable—the art of the next best.”

Otto von Bismarck, quoted in the Washington Examiner

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.”

Henry Kissinger, quoted in Forbes

“Sorrow makes us all children again—destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in the Montreal Gazette