Wit & Wisdom
From Dwight Eisenhower, Bill Gates, Earl Warren, Mac McCleary, Arthur Schopenhauer, G.K. Chesterton, Douglas Adams
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
Dwight Eisenhower, quoted in The Sacramento Bee
“Success is a lousy teacher.”
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Bill Gates, quoted in The Denver Post
“I always turn to the sports pages first, to read of man’s triumphs, before turning to the front page to read of man’s failures.”
Earl Warren, quoted in The Australian
“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.”
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Financial expert Mac McCleary, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times
“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in the Portland Oregonian
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”
Douglas Adams, quoted in United Press International