Wit & Wisdom
From Woody Allen, Anne Sophie Swetchine, Ambrose Bierce, Bertrand Russell, Allison Pearson, Oscar Wilde, Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.”
Woody Allen, quoted in The Times of India
“The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs; it will pity you for what you lose, but never for what you lack.”
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Author Anne Sophie Swetchine, quoted in the Associated Press
“Patience is a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.”
Ambrose Bierce, quoted in New York
“Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.”
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Bertrand Russell, quoted in The Village Voice
“The great thing about unrequited love is that it’s the only kind that lasts.”
Novelist Allison Pearson, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Oscar Wilde, quoted in the London Sunday Telegraph
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, quoted in the Merced, Calif., Sun-Star
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