Wit & Wisdom

“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

Author John Burroughs, quoted in Forbes.com

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”

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Author C. Northcote Parkinson, quoted in the Associated Press

“There’s always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

Graham Greene, quoted in The San Diego Union-Tribune

“Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., quoted in the NYTimes.com

“We are so accustomed to disguising ourselves to others that, in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”

François de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in the Financial Times

“As a rule, children are a bitter disappointment—their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.”

Queen Victoria, quoted in the London Times

“Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.”

Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Men’s Health