Wit & Wisdom
From Margaret Thatcher, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Ameringer, Groucho Marx, Charles Bukowski
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
Margaret Thatcher, quoted in The New York Times
“No one is such a liar as the indignant man.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted in the Associated Press
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath, quoted in WritersDigest.com
“In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
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Abraham Lincoln, quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”
Labor organizer Oscar Ameringer, quoted in the London Independent
“Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.”
Groucho Marx, quoted in the New Haven, Conn., Register
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.”
Poet Charles Bukowski, quoted in ESPN.com
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