Wit & Wisdom
From Bob Dylan, Henry David Thoreau, Havelock Ellis, Oscar Wilde, Erich Fromm, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Charles Dickens
“You can fake an orgasm, but you can’t fake laughter.”
Bob Dylan, quoted in the Los Angeles Times
“We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.”
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Henry David Thoreau, quoted in Forbes.com
“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.”
Psychologist Havelock Ellis, quoted in the Associated Press
“Ultimately, the bond of all companionship is conversation.”
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Oscar Wilde, quoted in the Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., Times
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
Psychologist Erich Fromm, quoted in HuffingtonPost.com
“I’ve always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, quoted in the Bismarck, N.D., Tribune
“Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.”
Charles Dickens, quoted in BookReporter.com
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