Wise Mice Need a Pad too

A Bit of Wisdom, Dashes of History and a Bunch of Easy Math!

Antique Wisdoms have Guided Generations for Centuries
to Encourage, Educate and Entertain.

52 Teams of 8 Helped Make Humanity Great, and You Can Help Do It Too!

I started collecting public domain quotes to Encourage, Educate or Entertain my grandkids and I grouped them into teams of 8.

And Always Remember... Wisdom, Wisdom that's the Test, Which Rival Wisdom Team is Best? You Decide!

*dozens more coming soon!

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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Voltaire 1694 - 1778 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.1

Believe you can and you're halfway there. - Theodore Roosevelt 1858 - 1919 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. - William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.3

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? - Sun Tzu 545 BC - 496 BC - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. - Baltasar Gracian 1601 - 1658 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Good, Better, Best. Never Let it Rest, till your Good is Better and Your Better is Best. - St. Jerome 347 AD - 420 AD - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. - Fredrich Nietzsche 1844 - 1900 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.4

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. - Confucius 551 BC - 479 BC - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue. - Moliere 1622 - 1673 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.5

I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible. - Charles Lamb 1775 - 1834 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.7

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. - Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass 1818 - 1895 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot 1819 - 1880 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. - Robert G. Ingersoll 1857 - 1899 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Light is the task where many share the toil. - Homer ??? BC - 850 BC - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds. - Daniel D. Palmer 1845 - 1918 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Never cut what you can untie. - Joseph Joubert 1754 - 1824 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

Nobody minds having what is too good for them. - Jane Austen 1775 - 1817 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.2

S2T-4.6- Every great dream begins with a dreamer. - Harriet Tubman 1822 – 1913 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

To me, old age is always ten years older than I am. - John Burroughs 1837 - 1921 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.8

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. - Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. - Abraham Lincoln 1806 – 1865 - Pretty Witty Mousepads Stop2Think - S2T-16.6