“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Henry van Dyke quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” not further attributed in Epoch Times email August 30, 2022.
“The mind must be enlarged to see the simple things.”
G.K. Chesterton “A Simple Thought” in The Thing quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
“Some people go to finishing school. Maybe I should go to starting school.”
Me July 7, 2001 [not a propos of anything in particular].
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email teaser October 6, 2022.
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
English novelist L.P. Hartley, quoted in Sylvan Barnet’s “Overview” in the 1986 Signet Classic edition of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar [in Policy Options November 2002 historian Desmond Morton called him “an otherwise obscure English novelist”].
“Don’t ask why children need to see drag queens; Ask yourself why drag queens want an audience of children!”
Emailed by a friend July 30, 2022 as part of an email roundup, without attribution.
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
William Morris, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email teaser August 20, 2022
“At age seven, the much-tutored [future Queen] Victoria was reading British classics, perfecting her German and learning French. However, her frustrated piano master one day noted, ‘There is no royal road to music, Princess. You must practise like everybody else.’ Victoria slammed the piano shut. ‘There! You see there is no must about it!’”
Donna Jacobs “Monday Morning” in Ottawa Citizen May 21, 2007