“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”
Doug Larson, quoted on https://www.hound-dog-media.com
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.”
Mark Twain, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail July 24, 2008
“It is better to play for nothing than to work for nothing.”
Adam Smith, quoted in Jan de Vries The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750
“I had a great idea this morning but I didn’t like it.”
A piece of “Samuel Goldwyn apocrypha” quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 28, 2004
“The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.”
Confederate General Richard Ewell quoted in James M. McPherson, Ordeal by Fire: The Civil War & Reconstruction