Wit & Wisdom
From Mark Twain, John Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tracy Morgan, Ambrose Bierce, René Magritte
“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.”
Mark Twain, quoted in CBSsports.com
“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
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John Irving, quoted in the Allentown, Pa., Morning Call
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, quoted in The Buffalo News
“I can’t watch American Idol. It’s like karaoke without the booze.”
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Comedian Tracy Morgan, quoted in The Denver Post
“An egotist is a person of low taste— more interested in himself than in me.”
Ambrose Bierce, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.”
Artist René Magritte, quoted in the London Independent
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