Read a selection of quotes from Brownie Wise and Earl Tupper and bask in the positive thinking of the 1950s.
You can't lead anyone else farther than you have gone yourself.
-- Brownie Wise
When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.
-- Brownie Wise
Everybody admires a "go-getter" -- if he is tactful.
-- Earl Tupper
Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.
-- Brownie Wise
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Brownie Wise
The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them.
-- Earl Tupper
There is nothing new about the need for personal recognition. It is as old as mankind.
-- Brownie Wise
The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.
-- Brownie Wise
The difference in character and future usefulness between the self educated and the college pampered person is the difference between the baby who can sit up and feed himself and the one who has to be held and have the food spooned into him.
-- Earl Tupper
Excerpts from the Papers of Earl Silas Tupper and Brownie Wise, Smithsonian Archive Center.
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