The Way Things Are Quotes"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. " -- Benjamin Franklin, From Poor Richard's Almanack (1741)"Tis with our judgments as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own." -- Alexander Pope, From An Essay on Criticism "We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. " -- Bertrand Russell "You don't need a weather man To know which way the wind blows. " -- Bob Dylan, From the song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" (1965) "Fortune favours the brave. " � Terence "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. " � Confucius "When nothing is sure, everything is possible." -- Margaret Drabble, From the book The Middle Ground (1980).
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