The Week (US)

Wit & Wisdom

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“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change

them yourself.”

Andy Warhol, quoted in

iNews.co.uk

“There’s one way to find out if a man is honest: Ask him. If he says yes, you know he is a crook.”

Groucho Marx, quoted in

the Associated Press

“It is the summit of idleness to deplore the present, to deplore actuality.”

Novelist Martin Amis, quoted in The Atlantic

“Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the

salt of the earth.”

Writer Rebecca West, quoted

in Forbes.com

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

Henry David Thoreau, quoted in GoodHousek­eeping.com

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

Poet and memoirist Maya Angelou, quoted in

Reader’s Digest

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open

sewer and die.”

Filmmaker Mel Brooks, quoted in NYMag.com

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