Wit & Wisdom

“Affliction is a good man’s shining time.”

Poet Edward Young, quoted in the Grand Rapids, Mich., Press

“Cursing the darkness only delays the dawn.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted in The Washington Post

“A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.”

Anton Chekhov, quoted in the London Independent

“You can live to be 100 if you give up all the things that make you want to live that long.”

Woody Allen, quoted in USA Today

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.”

H.L. Mencken, quoted in The Buffalo News

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

Friedrich Nietzsche, quoted in the Johannesburg Business Day