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Ponder These Quotations

Ponder or think about the following over a period of time.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another wit.

—C.N. Bovée

The Magna Carta: England’s first reign check.

—Marlys Huffman

The easy way to teach children the value of money is to borrow it from them.

—Anonymous

The Five Animal Stages of the Life of a Man are

  • spring chicken
  • little lamb
  • young lion
  • fat cat
  • old goat
—Anonymous
On Grrr-ammar
"Yes, they've invited Jane and I
To come at four for tea."
Whatever happened to that word
That once was known as "me"?
—Dick Layman

Egotists are always me-deep in conversation.

—Anonymous

Don't be jumping to confusions.

—Anonymous

The mind—better read than dead!

—Anonymous

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

—Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate

The greatest mental risks we face today are becoming disabled, dying too soon, living too long.

—Anonymous

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing them.

—Anonymous

Words—so innocent and powerless as they are when standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of the one who knows how to combine them.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne
This entry is located in the following unit: Focusing on Words Newsletter #14 (page 1)