Wit & Wisdom
from Lily Tomlin, John Kenneth Galbraith, Oscar Wilde, Albert Einstein, Herman Melville, Hubert Humphrey, Shirley MacLaine
“Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.”
Lily Tomlin, quoted in the Daily Kos
“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.”
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John Kenneth Galbraith, quoted in The New York Times
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
Oscar Wilde, quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education
“I never think about the future—it comes soon enough.”
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Albert Einstein, quoted in the London Times
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville, quoted in the Book Reporter
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
Hubert Humphrey, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.”
Shirley MacLaine, quoted in the London Sun
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