Wit & Wisdom

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:42 am

When you see what some girls marry,you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland,quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:46 am

Some people know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:59 am

In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:30 am

Beware the fury of a patient man.

John Dryden,quoted in the Augusta,Ga., Chronicle

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:57 am

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought or by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:20 pm

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act;but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

G.K. Chesterton,qouted in The San Diego Union-Tribune

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:53 am

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:53 am

Humor is a rubber sword--it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Playwright Mary Hirsch,quoted in Johanesburg's Business Day.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:28 am

It was mealtime during a flight on Hooters Airline.
"Would you like dinner?" the flight attendant asked John, seated in front.
"What are my choices?" John asked.
"Yes or no," she replied.

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:42 am

It takes less time to do a right thing than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:56 am

No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes, graduations, and releases from jail. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people's version of looting.

G. Carlin

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:10 am

Optimism:

A man stopped to watch a Little League baseball game. He asked one of the youngsters what the score was.
"We're behind 18-0" was the answer.
"Well," said the man, "I must say you don't look discouraged."
"Discouraged?" the boy said, puzzled. "Why should I be discouraged? We haven't come to bat yet."

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:46 pm

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Novelist John Galawortty,quoted in The Washington Monthly

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:34 pm

Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect,it will be fish.

Ovid,quoted in the United Press International

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 10:53 pm

The fellow with the smallest mind is usually the one most willing to give someone else a piece of it.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:46 am

Dogs come when they're called.Cats take a message.

Novelist Mary Bly,quoted in the London Express

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:42 am

When faith goes to market, it always takes a basket.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:52 am

Golf is a game in which the slowest people in the world are those in front of you, and the fastest are those behind.

Focused · Post by **Focused** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:43 pm

A golfer never feels better than when he is under par.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:12 pm

Life does not count by years.Some suffer a lifetime in a day,and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the Sun.

Novelist Augusta Jane Evans,quoted in the Associated Press