WyzWmn's Words to the Wise

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. – G. K. Chesterton

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them!
How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard
by the time I read them. – Arnold Lobel

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. – Peter Ustinov

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. – Redd Foxx

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.- Margaret Thatcher

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it. – Terry Pratchett

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. – Albert Camus

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose. – Evan Esar

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz