Wit & Wisdom

“Fear not those who argue, but those who dodge.”

Dale Carnegie, quoted in BlackBook Magazine

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”

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Albert Camus, quoted by syndicated columnist Liz Smith

“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”

Kurt Vonnegut, quoted in The Denver Post

“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”

Writer Minna Antrim, quoted in the Associated Press

“When you are down and out, something always turns up—and it is usually the noses of your friends.”

Orson Welles, quoted in the London Independent

“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.”

Samuel Johnson, quoted in the Traverse City, Mich., Northern Express

“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary

to the emancipation of the mind.”

John Maynard Keynes, quoted in The New York Review of Books