Quotables 22 July 2024: Wisdom from Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and more

Illustration: Edwin Larson/National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution

‘An intelligent person never shares three things with anyone - Their innermost fears, past regrets, and ultimate excuse for showing up late’. - Mark Twain

‘The doors of wisdom are never shut’. - Benjamin Franklin, from ‘Poor Richard's Almanack’

‘One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.’ - C.S. Lewis, from ‘The Voyage of the Dawn Treader’

‘Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it’. - Adlai Stevenson II

‘Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important’. - T.S. Eliot

‘It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all’. - Sylvia Plath

‘When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind’. - C.S. Lewis

Copyright 2024, Arthur Newhook. @Sunking278 and @FloydEtcetera on X, and at the same handles on FACEBOOK. MASTODON - @ArthurNewhook@mastodon.world, BLUESKY - @arthurnewhook.bsky.social. DONATIONS GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED at https://tinyurl.com/ArthurNewhook.