Wit & Wisdom
From Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, Mike Tyson, W. Somerset Maugham, Joan Didion, Winston Churchill
“I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.”
Oprah Winfrey, quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
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Oscar Wilde, quoted in Salon.com
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Aristotle, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Everybody has a plan until they get hit.”
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Mike Tyson, quoted in the New York Post
“There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.”
W. Somerset Maugham, quoted in TheWashingtonPost.com
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
Joan Didion, quoted in The Boston Globe
“If you don’t look facts in the face, they have a way of stabbing you in the back.”
Winston Churchill, quoted in Canada Free Press