Wit & Wisdom

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:38 am

Getting up in the morning is a matter of mind over mattress.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:24 pm

"How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?"

Charles de Gaulle

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:22 am

More things are wrought by prayer than this world thinks.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:52 pm

Fanaticism is only loyality carried out to a convulsive extreme.

William James,quoted in the Boston Globe

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:25 am

When God measures a man, he puts a tape around his heart, not his head.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:18 pm

To be capable of respect is today almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Philosopher Joseph Joubert,quoted in the Associated press

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:18 am

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:44 am

If you keep your head when all about are losing theirs,it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Jean Kerr,quoted in The Kansas City Star

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:06 am

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"

Jean Cocteau

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:26 pm

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right,or doing it better.

John Updike,quoted in Uhited Press International

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:01 pm

"The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters."

Jean-Paul Kauffmann

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:33 pm

The true gentleman is God's servant, the world's master, and his own man.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:20 am

"Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying."

Fran Lebowitz

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:57 am

Literature is news that stays news.

Ezra Pound,quoted in the London Independent

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:59 am

"Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next."

Franklin P. Jones

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:17 am

Husbands were made to be talked to. It helps them concentrate on what they're reading.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 12:34 pm

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for."

Ogden Nash,

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:13 pm

The reason the mainstream is thought of a stream is because of its shallowness.
George Carlin,quoted in the Denver Post.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:41 am

"Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots."

Jeremy Preston Johnson

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:53 am

Women might fake orgasms.But men fake whole relationships.

Sharon Stone,quoted in the London Times