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21 posts tagged Wit
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
“The ones I like … are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’”
“I don’t know much about being a millionaire, but I’ll bet I’d be darling at it.”
“Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.”
“Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!”
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
“Was it a millionaire who said, ‘Imagine no possessions’?”
“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from what’s not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”
“Men are from earth, women are from earth. Deal with it.”
Eric Gill (1882-1940), sundial, c.1937, 2520 Cimarron St., Los Angeles, CA, via Smithsonian Institution. The motto on this sundial is “When the sun is not shining I do this for fun.”
“All I can be is me — whoever that is.”
“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”
“I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four in the morning. The hour breeds thought. At twenty-one, life being all future, it may be examined with impunity. But, at thirty, having become an uncomfortable mixture of future and past, it is a thing to be looked at only when the sun is high and the world full of warmth and optimism.”
“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”
