Wit & Wisdom

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

Henry Ford, quoted in the London Daily Telegraph

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

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Novelist Arnold Bennett, quoted in the Woodstock, Ontario, Sentinel-Review

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

Henry David Thoreau, quoted in the Santa Cruz, Calif., Sentinel

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”

Poet James Russell Lowell, quoted in the Ghanaian Chronicle

“The secret of a man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.”

Novelist William Dean Howells, quoted in the Associated Press

“Life is like a B movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it, but you don’t want to see it again.”

Ted Turner, quoted in The Denver Post

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

Mark Twain, quoted in the Bergen County, N.J., Record