Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:47 am

Unexpected money is a delight,The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more.

Mark Twain, quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:13 am

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder, quoted in The Denver Post

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:47 pm

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Poet Charles Wadsworth, quoted in the London Express

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:05 am

Don't Drink and Drive. You might hit a bump and spill something.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:42 am

^^^^

There are no secrerts better keft than the secrets that everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw,quoted in United Press International

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:48 pm

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Beverly Sills, quoted in Forbes

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:00 am

If at first you don't succeed
skydiving is not for you.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:47 am

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

Author Julian Barnes, quoted in The New Yorker

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 8:11 am

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity,the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.

Benjamin Disraedi,quoted in The Washington Post

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:38 am

The less we know, the longer our explanations.

Ezra Pound, quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:50 am

What the public wants is not passion but the appearance of passion.

Roland Barthes, quoted in the Financial Times

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:21 pm

Reality is only an illusion that occurs due to a lack of alcohol.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:18 am

The closest I ever got to a 4.0 in college was my blood alcohol content.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:56 pm

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King Jr., quoted in the Bridgewater, N.J.Courier News.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:45 am

One cannot live a meaningful life unless there is something one is prepared to give it up for.

Educator Anthony Kronman,quoted in the Wall Street Journal

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:22 pm

Sex is like money;only too much is enough.

John Updike , quoted in the London Observer

Post by **Orange and Brown** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:36 pm

If it smells like poop
And it looks like poop

Then it must be........................................................
Michigan

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:40 am

Modeaty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

British statesman Philip Stanhope,quoted in the Columbus ,Ohio Dispatch

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:58 am

Thing turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Art Linkletter, quoted in the Memphis Commercial Appeal

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:23 am

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.

Sun Tzu,author of the Art of War,quoted in the Washington Post