Wit & Wisdom
from Epictetus, Brenda Hammond, Joe Ancis, Oscar Wilde, Madonna, B.C. Forbes, G.K. Chesterton
“To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.”
Epictetus, quoted in the London Guardian
“If fear alters behavior, you’re already defeated.”
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Author Brenda Hammond, quoted in Forbes
“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”
Comedian Joe Ancis, quoted in The Book Reporter
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
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Oscar Wilde, quoted in the Sportingnews.com
“Better to live one year as a tiger than a hundred as sheep.”
Madonna, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal
“Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.”
Scottish journalist B.C. Forbes, quoted in the Augusta, Ga., Chronicle
“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in the London Independent
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