Wit & Wisdom
From Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Charlotte Brontë, George Washington Carver, Abraham Lincoln, Herb Caen, Martin Luther King Jr., W. Somerset Maugham
“When you sling mud, you lose ground.”
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.”
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Charlotte Brontë, quoted in TheDallasMorningNews.com
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
George Washington Carver, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him you are his sincere friend.”
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Abraham Lincoln, quoted in The Sydney Morning Herald
“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”
Herb Caen, quoted in The Boston Globe
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.”
Martin Luther King Jr., quoted in the Baltimore Sun
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham, quoted in Malaysia’s New Straits Times