Wit & Wisdom

“Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.”

Poet Jean de la Fontaine, quoted in United Press International

“All experience is great provided you live through it. If it kills you, you’ve gone too far.”

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Painter Alice Neel, quoted in The New Yorker

“Economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.”

Rupert Murdoch, quoted in the London Guardian

“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

Robert Frost, quoted in the Albany, N.Y., Times Union

“Sadly, talent and character do not often reside in the same person.”

Lorne Michaels, quoted in The New York Times Magazine

“Our task is to become fluent with the life we’re leading.”

Composer John Cage, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle

“A different language is a different vision of life.”

Federico Fellini, quoted in the Montreal Gazette