Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:30 am

In a real dark night of the soul it is always 3 0'clock in the morning

F. Scott Fitzgerald,quoted in The New York Time

The Instructor · Post by **The Instructor** » Fri May 19, 2006 1:40 pm

Interesting quote

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:38 pm

Golf and sex are about the only thing you can enjoy without being good at.

Prfessional golfer Jimmy Demaret,quoted in the London Exoress

The Instructor · Post by **The Instructor** » Fri May 19, 2006 9:46 pm

Dolly Parton

Post by **noreply66** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:42 am

If A man begins in certainties he shall end in doubts;but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.

Philosopher Francis Bacon,quoted in the Associated Press

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat May 20, 2006 9:08 am

To be happy with a man, you must understand him a lot and love him a little.

To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:47 pm

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes,our ancestors.It is the democracy of the dead.Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogrant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

G.K Chesterton,quoted in The New York Times

Post by **noreply66** » Sun May 21, 2006 11:42 pm

Happiness is as a butterfly which,when pursued,is always beyond our grasp,but which if you will sit down quietly,may alight upon you.---------Nathaniel Hawthorne,quoted in the London Evening Standard

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:53 am

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.One can collect only a few,and they are more beautiful if they are few.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh,quoted in Family Circle

Post by **noreply66** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:10 am

When women go wrong,men go right after them.

Mae West,quoted in the New Orleans Times-Picayune

Post by **noreply66** » Wed May 24, 2006 4:52 pm

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts;they come back to us with a certain alienater majesty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson,quoted in the St.Petersburgh,Florida,Times.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:10 am

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook

William James,quoted in Fortune

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:34 am

Happiness is beneficial for the body,but it is grief that developes the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust,quoted in United Press International

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri May 26, 2006 10:43 am

The cost is always higher than one budgets for, and it is exactly 3.14 times higher, hence the importance of pi.

(Law of Pi Eyed)

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 26, 2006 4:12 pm

The absent are always wrong.

Francois dela Rochafoucauld,quoted in The Ottawa Citizen

Post by **noreply66** » Fri May 26, 2006 8:17 pm

There are no more expensive things than a free gift.

Michel de Montaigne,quoted in the International Heard Tribune

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat May 27, 2006 7:11 am

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three
times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Post by **noreply66** » Sun May 28, 2006 8:56 am

All tragedies are finished by a death,all comedies by a marriage

Lord Byron quoted in The Village Voice

Post by **noreply66** » Mon May 29, 2006 3:13 pm

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell,quoted in the London Telegraph

Post by **noreply66** » Tue May 30, 2006 8:29 am

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Author W. Somerset Maugham,quoted in the London Spectator