Wisdom in 140 letters

Ever wondered just how much insight and wisdom you can cram into 140 characters. Turns out, it worked great for Jesus, Descartes, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King Jr., Fran Lebowitz, and Donald Rumsfeld. Here is a selection of this wisdom:

• I think, therefore I am. (24)
• It’s funny because it’s true. (29)
• I am large; I contain multitudes. (33)
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be. (35)
• Eighty percent of success is showing up. (40)
• Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (47)
• The vice-presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss. (55)
• Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. (58)
• It’s not the size of the ship; it’s the motion of the ocean. (60)
• Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. (68)
• Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. (73)
• The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. (76)
• Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. (79)
• What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (83)
• I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. (113)
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. (112)
• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. (117)
• There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America. (124)
• There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. (123)
• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. (130)