Wit & Wisdom

“Fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of the clap.”

Norman Mailer, quoted in Harper’s

“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”

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Samuel Johnson, quoted in The Weekly Standard

“The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.”

Fred Astaire, quoted in the London Independent

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

J.K. Rowling, quoted in the San Jose Mercury News

“There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding one another.”

Eric Hoffer, quoted in The Vancouver Sun