Wit & Wisdom

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:21 am

Remember any of this.....

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had
their hair done every day and wore high heels?

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:02 am

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Ann Landers,quoted in the San Antonio Express-News

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:46 am

Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled......

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:24 pm

The first and final things you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Ernest Hemingway,quoted in the West Roxbury & Roslindale,Mass., Transcript.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:21 pm

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment. .......

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:01 am

Never fry bacon naked.......

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:12 pm

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln,quoted in the Newtown,Conn.,Bee

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:07 am

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

George Orwell,quoted in the London Sunday Express

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:12 am

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.......

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:10 pm

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. .......

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:26 am

Life ain't about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.......

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:26 am

People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church....

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:04 am

Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:48 pm

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hit a target no one else can see.

German philosopher Arthur Schopenbauer,quoted in the Lansing,Mich.,State Journal

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:47 am

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.....

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:47 pm

If the facts don't fit the theory,change the facts.

Albert Einstein,quoted in the Brantford,Ontario,Expositor

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:59 am

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kiereguard,quoted in the Portland Oregonian

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:13 pm

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung,quoted in The American Prospect

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:19 am

Effective leaders know that you first have to touch peoples' hearts before you ask them for their hand.

Frederick Douglass,quoted in the Greenville,Miss., Delta Democrat Times

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:09 pm

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity.Another man's,I mean.

Mark Twain,quoted in the Aberdeen,S.D.,American News