Favorite Quotes of Wisdom and Wit...

"Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them!"
~Edgar Allan Poe

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,

try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

Where have I heard that?

"Heaven is under our feet as well as above our heads."
~Henry David Thoreau

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw:

"Fear not that your life shall end, but rather fear that it shall never begin."
~Cardinal Henry Newman

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll:

I never let my schooling get in the way of my education. - Mark Twain

I have that one in my notebook too!

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
~Abraham Lincoln

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levenson:

Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. George Burns

"From the cowardice that dares not face new truths, from the laziness that is content with half truths, from the the arrogance that thinks it knows all truths, Good lord, deliver me."
~Kenyan Prayer

It takes a village to raise a child - Unknown

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan

I like children. If they're properly cooked. - WC Fields