The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. – Jane Smiley
Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom weve learned and create something. – Liz Carpenter
I have tried at every point to seek Gods wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him. – Jesse Helms
You know, Ive always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end. – Fiona Apple
There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within. – Robert Dale Owen
