Wit & Wisdom

“He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage—he won’t have many rivals.”

Scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, quoted in Forbes

“Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.”

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Eudora Welty, quoted in The Buffalo News

“Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.”

T.S. Eliot, quoted in the Associated Press

“Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.”

Samuel Johnson, quoted in TheAtlantic.com

“If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you’re not considered well viewed.”

Lily Tomlin, quoted in PublishersWeekly.com

“Mixing politics and religion is like mixing manure and ice cream. It doesn’t do much to the manure, but it surely does ruin the ice cream.”

Will Rogers, quoted in the Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star

“The only sin is mediocrity.”

Choreographer Martha Graham, quoted in MSNBC.com