Time for wit and wisdom again. A few people have asked which are mine. Sometimes my writing something is not an endorsement. It just means I find it interesting.

“The chief product of human happiness arises from the consciousness 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

“You win and then you see.” Napoleon

“Astronomy—The law of higgledy-piggledy.”

Waldman —“Madison would, I suspect ... be delighted by surveys showing that, compared with most developed nations, Americans believe in God more and attend worship services more frequently.”

TAPS — Day is done, gone the sun,

From the hills, from the lake, from the sky,

All is well, safely rest, God is nigh.

“The future does not belong to those who are content with today.” Kipling

“Liberalism is a complicated and exacting, not to say grim and scolding creed — and not one conducive to happiness.” —George Will

“Conservatives are more apt to be older, married and religious, all of which increase happiness.”

“Luck is the residue of design.” —Branch Rickey

“Events are in the saddle and tend to ride mankind.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Why are new grocery stores built to look like the Alamo?”

“This pudding has no theme.” —Churchill

“The earth belongs always to the living generation.” —Jefferson

“No society can make a permanent constitution or even a perpetual law.”

“Slavery is not dependent on a metal chain but rather upon one’s very livelihood being dependent on another’s whim.”

“Always remember that someone somewhere is making a product that will make your product obsolete.”

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.” Samuel Butler

“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” —Romans: 12

“There’s nothing like a mama hug.”

“Weeping may last through the night but joy cometh with the morning.” —Psalms

“It does not matter how slowly you may go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius

“Ideas won’t keep — something must be done about them.” — Whitehead

Emanuel Kant. “Two things fill the mind with awe and wonder — the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“Dreams never sleep.”

“Someday I hope to be an ebullient grouch.”

Latin translation: “Philosophy,” Love of Wisdom

An example of some of today’s high school English by David McCullough: “Ask not what your country can, you know, do for you but what you can like do for your country actually.”

First telegram by inventor Samuel Morse (1844): “What hath God wrought?”

John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Blind man: “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve not seen.”

“There is indeed a special relationship between the U.S. and Britain — culture, language, political philosophy, plus the concept so many don’t have, the profound ideal of fair play.”

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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