Wit & Wisdom
From Plato, Walter Bagehot, Dale Carnegie, Benjamin Franklin, William Saroyan, Robert Heinlein, Peter McArthur
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
Plato, quoted in Bloomberg BusinessWeek
“Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.”
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Journalist Walter Bagehot, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie, quoted in the Indiana Gazette
“Necessity never made a good bargain.”
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Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Back Stage
“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
Playwright William Saroyan, quoted in the Associated Press
“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we
become enslaved by it.”
Novelist Robert Heinlein, quoted in BookReporter.com
“A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.”
Author Peter McArthur, quoted in the Bangor, Maine, Daily News
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