Wit & Wisdom
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding.”
Philosopher Marshall McLuhan, quoted in Forbes.com
“Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save
one-third for work.”
Writer Katherine Anne Porter, quoted in TheBrowser.com
“The deed is everything,
the glory is naught.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, quoted in PsychologyToday.com
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
Philosopher Simone Weil, quoted in the New Statesman (U.K.)
“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live
any life at all.”
James Baldwin, quoted in Woman’s Day
“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”
Author Edward Abbey, quoted in ArtsJournal.com
“No animal should ever jump up on the diningroom furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the
conversation.”
Humorist Fran Lebowitz, quoted in the Montreal Gazette