Time for Wit and Wisdom again. A few people have asked which are mine, all mine. Figure it out for yourself. Sometimes my writing something is not an endorsement. It just means I find it interesting.

"The chief product of human happiness arises from the unconsciousness of being beloved." -- Adam Smith

"I would be true for there are those who trust me; I would be true for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there is much to suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare." -- Howard Walter

"Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a Life Saver if you asked him."

"Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork."

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." Barnett Cocks

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,/Or what's a heaven for?" -- Robert Browning.

"The sky is high and the Emperor is far away." -- Chinese

"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well." -- J.C. Whittier

"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time."

"Dogs don't bark at parked cars."

"All rising is by a winding stair."

"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." Willa Cather

"Dogs have owners and cats have staff."

"Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, black and yellow, red and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world."

"Evolution is fully consistent with theistic religious faith."

"Happiness is a great love and much serving."

"Loving a child is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love is difficult."

"All writing is confession." -- Goethe

New book, "All alone in the kitchen with an eggplant."

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."

"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." -- Addison

"He was right, dead right. But just as dead as if he'd been wrong."

"An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind." -- Ghandi

"Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. Happily, lucky for you, I happen to be a quack."

"If I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life." -- Malcolm Muggeridge

"The man who dies rich, dies disgraced." -- Andrew Carnegie

"I hope I never ridicule what is wise and good."

"Keep your sunny side up, up/Hide the side that gets blue/If you have nine sons in a row/Baseball teams make money, you know."

"Sleepy time gal,/when all your dancin' is through/Sleepy time gal/I'll buy a cottage for two. You'll learn to cook and to sew/what's more you'll love it I know/When you're my stay-at-home/play-at-home,/9:00 o'clock/Sleepy time gal."

"What if the hokey-pokey is really what it's all about!"

"A committee is a group that k.jpg minutes and loses hours." -- Milton Berle

"I recently learned that the stuff spinning around in the rings of Saturn is lost airline luggage."

"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark." -- Zen

"Yiquie jie you kennery" -- Chinese for "anything is possible."

"Languages are the pedigree of nations." -- Samuel Johnson

"Capital goes where it is wanted and welcome and stays where it's well treated." -- George Will

Attorney Austin Cunningham has been the president of five business companies and in 1988 was named Outstanding Elder Citizen of the Year for South Carolina.

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