Wit & Wisdom
“Fiction is a bridge to the truth that the mechanics of
journalism can’t reach.”
Hunter S. Thompson, quoted in The Atlantic
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quoted
in Forbes.com
“I do not believe that divisions purposely caused
can ever lead to good.”
Niccolò Machiavelli, quoted in
The Washington Post
“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces
us to notice what we never expected to see.”
Mathematician John Tukey, quoted in the Financial Times
“A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what
its frivolity destroys.”
Edith Wharton, quoted in
LaphamsQuarterly.org
“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
Mark Twain, quoted
in Astronomy
“When you don’t have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it’s sex. When you
have both, it’s health.”
Author J.P. Donleavy, quoted in The Times (U.K.)