Wit & Wisdom
“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet
been discovered.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoted
in Gizmodo.com
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
Poet Edward Thomas, quoted
in Forbes.com
“If something can corrupt you, you’re
corrupted already.”
Bob Marley, quoted in the
Montreal Gazette
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never
did and it never will.”
Frederick Douglass, quoted in
Texas Monthly
“When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect.”
Marcel Proust, quoted in
The New Yorker
“History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise
that we never detect the resemblance until the
damage is done.”
Journalist Sydney J. Harris,
quoted in the Georgia, British Columbia, Straight
“Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore / And that’s what parents
were created for.”
Ogden Nash, quoted in
The Times (U.K.)