Wisdom and Wisecracks
This page is dedicated to capturing and sharing some of my favorite quotes. It’s a little hobby of mine. If you have a quote that you believe is worthy to be shared here, please share it and I’ll take it under consideration 
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As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
–Thoreau
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
–SUSAN SONTAG
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
–Albert Einstein
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
–Aldous Huxley
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The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
–Henry Becque
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A successful life does not result from chance, fate, or good fortune, but from a succession of successful days lived in pursuit of a worthy purpose.
–Ari Kiev
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We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven—a senile benevolence who, as they say, “liked to see young people enjoying themselves” and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, “a good time was had by all.”
–C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never
found it, But because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
–William Faulkner
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To succeed at what is easy is a small victory.
–Anne Perry
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If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot because our charitable expenditure excludes them.
–C.S. Lewis
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.
–Rene Daumal
What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute’s mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strooken down?
–William Shakespeare
