Wit & Wisdom
from Albert Camus, H.L. Mencken, Aldous Huxley, Herodotus, Sen. George J. Mitchell, Clarence Darrow, Oscar Wilde
“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
Albert Camus, quoted in The Washington Post
“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia.”
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H.L. Mencken, quoted in The Denver Post
“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
Aldous Huxley, quoted in Industry Week
“It is better to be envied than to be pitied.”
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Herodotus, quoted in Forbes.com
“Although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.”
Onetime U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Clarence Darrow, quoted in the Birmingham, Ala., Post
“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.”
Oscar Wilde, quoted in the Lansing, Mich., State Journal
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