Wit & Wisdom

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:20 pm

Coming together is a beginning..keeping together is progress..working together is success.

Burg_Grad_77 · Post by **Burg_Grad_77** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:25 am

I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:00 am

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln,quoted in the Dublin Irish News

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:38 pm

Diplomacy is the same as saying "nice doggie" until you have a chance to pick up a rock.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:11 pm

"Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my Scotch, I say I'm thirsty, not dirty."

Joe E. Lewis

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:12 am

"It is beyond the imagination of the menu-maker that there are people in the world who breakfast on a single egg."

Melvin Maddocks

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:54 pm

An apology is the super glue of life. It can repair just about anything.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:35 pm

"Onion soup sustains. The process of making it is somewhat like the process of learning to love. It requires commitment, extraordinary effort, time, and will make you cry."

Ronni Lundy

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:31 pm

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

Thomas Fuller,quoted in the Dallas Morning News

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:37 am

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

Francis Bacon,quoted in the Monterey County,Calif.,Herald

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:13 am

"Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce."

Norman Mailer

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:23 pm

A wife said to her husband, " Did anyone tell you that you were witty, intelligent, and handsome?" "No." "Then where did you get that idea?"

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:05 am

"I did not say this meat was tough. I just said I didn't see the horse that usually stands outside."

W.C. Fields

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:16 am

The greatest tormentor of the human soul is a guilty conscience.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:38 pm

You know you're getting old when caution is the only things you care to exercise.

Chef Algie Petrere,quoted in the Bacon Rouge Advocate.

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:49 pm

You know you're getting old when resisting temptation is not as hard as recognizing it.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:33 pm

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel de Cervantes,quoted in the Lowell,Mass.,Sun

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:34 pm

The human race has one really effective weapon,and that is laughter.

Mark Twain,quoted in the Texas Exaniner

hollandkat3 · Post by **hollandkat3** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:37 pm

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.

Earl Nightingale

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:10 am

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you."

Nora Ephron