Wit and Wisdom

“The attempt to make

heaven on earth invariably

produces hell.”

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Philosopher Karl Popper,

quoted in

The New York Times

"People never lie so much

as after a hunt, during a war,

or before an election.”

Otto von Bismarck,

quoted in the London

Daily Telegraph

"Wit ought to be a

glorious treat, like caviar.

Never spread it about like

marmalade.”

Noel Coward, quoted in the

Sydney Morning Herald

“People who throw kisses

are hopelessly lazy.”

Bob Hope,

quoted in The Denver Post

“With love one can live

even without happiness.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quoted

in United Press International

“People try nonviolence for

a week, and when it does

not work, they go back to

violence, which hasn’t

worked for centuries.”

Social critic Theodore

Roszak, quoted in the

Salt Lake Tribune

“A weak man has doubts

before a decision, a strong

man has them afterwards.”

Austrian writer Karl Kraus,

quoted in The New York Sun