WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:30:36 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Wanamaker, John – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Wanamaker, John -- Quoted in Herbert Adams Gibbons, John Wanamaker, Vol. 2 (1926) https://wist.info/wanamaker-john/41604/ https://wist.info/wanamaker-john/41604/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 22:11:56 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41604 I have no time to scold, and I learned thirty years ago it was foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.


John Wanamaker (1838-1922) American merchant, marketer, philanthropist, Postmaster General
Quoted in Herbert Adams Gibbons, John Wanamaker, Vol. 2 (1926)
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Variant paraphrase: "It's foolish to scold people. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God didn't see fit to distribute brains equally." ]]> https://wist.info/wanamaker-john/41604/feed/ 0 41604