Wit & Wisdom

“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

Samuel Johnson, quoted in the Fort Wayne, Ind., News-Sentinel

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”

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Musician Charles Wadsworth, quoted in the Mobile, Ala., Press-Register

“Laughter is an instant vacation.”

Milton Berle, quoted in the Montreal Gazette

“Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one’s insistence that he possesses it.”

Psychologist Kenneth Bancroft Clark, quoted in the Los Angeles Times

“All youth is bound to be ‘misspent’; there is something in its very nature that makes it so, and that is why all men regret it.”

Thomas Wolfe, quoted in the Associated Press

“Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.”

Gertrude Stein, quoted in InformationWeek